trail of a plane. The third time, it was in honour of the leaf of a Japanese maple found by chance between two pages of a dictionary that Luc had sent along with the ring we had chosen together. There was an interior garden in the jewellery store, home to the miniature tree. The owner had allowed Luc to take a leaf when he went there a month later to pick up the ring that had been adjusted to fit my finger. The fourth time, it was snowing very lightly. A large flake settled on the tip of my nose that morning, in the same place where Luc had taken another one away with his lips.
Those visits to the beautician allowed me to reproduce on my body those red dots of Lucâs that I knew by heart. I think that on the day when I have all those red dots tattooed, if I were to join them, I would be drawing the map of his destiny on my body. And maybe on that day he will show up at my door, take me by the hand as he always did instinctively, and stop me from saying âDisasterâ as he kisses me.
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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
this page : From
Cứa Äã má», ThÆ¡
by Viá»t PhÆ°Æ¡ng, 2008.
this page : Nguyá» n Du, lines 1â8.
this page : Rumi,
Bridge to the Soul
, translator Coleman Barks. Copyright © 2007 by Coleman Barks. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
this page : Edwin Morgan,
New Selected Poems
, Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2000.
KIM THÃY has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal, where she devotes herself to writing.
SHEILA FISCHMAN is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec. She lives in Montreal.
Those visits to the beautician allowed me to reproduce on my body those red dots of Lucâs that I knew by heart. I think that on the day when I have all those red dots tattooed, if I were to join them, I would be drawing the map of his destiny on my body. And maybe on that day he will show up at my door, take me by the hand as he always did instinctively, and stop me from saying âDisasterâ as he kisses me.
PERMISSIONS
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
this page : From
Cứa Äã má», ThÆ¡
by Viá»t PhÆ°Æ¡ng, 2008.
this page : Nguyá» n Du, lines 1â8.
this page : Rumi,
Bridge to the Soul
, translator Coleman Barks. Copyright © 2007 by Coleman Barks. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
this page : Edwin Morgan,
New Selected Poems
, Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2000.
KIM THÃY has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal, where she devotes herself to writing.
SHEILA FISCHMAN is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec. She lives in Montreal.
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