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Amelia Fielden

Not All Frogs Turn Into Princes

Across the road from the cinema, we find a French creperie, The Four Frogs.   My granddaughter chooses a chocolate confection for her supper, while I indulge in nostalgia. The last time Grand Marnier flambeed my dessert was almost fifty years ago.  And I was with a man I might have married.

more memorable
than the lovemaking,
those crepes suzettes
with which he wooed me —
a La Recherche* . . .

* ref. the “episode of the madeleine” in vol.1 of Marcel Proust’s 1913 A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, translated as Remembrance of Times Past.

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About the Author

Amelia Fielden is Australian. She is a professional Japanese translator and a keen writer of traditional Japanese forms of poetry in English. Her most recent collection is These Purple Years (Ginninderra Press, 2018).