EVE

 

                                                                             

Eve

 

 

Eve signaled by the apple which she holds

Of course in her left hand held behind her back,

Smiling up at the heavens like one of the justifiably Damned,

 Crowned with Laurel bearing a quill in her right hand,

 

And wearing only a pair of high-heel shoes.

Her stage then a book with a great R printed behind her.

Rombaldi, Éditeur, 184, Boulevard Saint-German, Paris.

The title of the book Les Fleurs Du Mal.

 

The year of issue 1935 printed on the spine.

So, Eve witnesses the fall of the Third Reich.

You picked it up in an antiquarian bookseller in

 

Saint Louis in Versailles, 60 years later.

Une nuit que j’étais prés d’une affreuse Juive,

I think of you now whenever I read this line.