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BY Chantal Dupuy-Dunier
TRANSLATED BY Darla Himeles with Robyn Newkumet
French

Rempart mouvant de ton dos.
Chaque nuit,
ton souffle permet
l’amble du sommeil,
jusqu’au retour.

— CHANTAL DUPUY-DUNIER, Éphéméride
(Flammarion, © 2009, p. 18)
REPRINTED WITH THE AUTHOR’S PERMISSION

English

Your back, a shifting shield.
Every night,
your breathing
lets sleep amble
just to the edge,
then return.

 

Biography

CHANTAL DUPUY-DUNIER réside en Auvergne. Lauréate du prix Artaud en 2000, elle est l’auteur de dix-huit recueils de poèmes.

CHANTAL DUPUY-DUNIER lives and works in Auvergne, France. The author of eighteen poetry collections, she was awarded the Prix Artaud in 2000.

DARLA HIMELES has published poetry and reviews in Pleiades, 5 AM and other journals. A graduate of the Drew University MFA program in poetry and poetry in translation, she lives in coastal Maine, where she teaches composition and humanities at Maine Maritime Academy.

ROBYN NEWKUMET is a retired French teacher and a specialist in French poetry. She holds a doctorate in modern languages from Middlebury College and a DEA from the Université de Franche-Comté.

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