Père Lachaise Cemetery Diptych, by Karla Linn Merrifield

Père Lachaise Cemetery Diptych
by Karla Linn Merrifield

Une
rose
blanche pour
Héloise
et Abelard, deux âmes—
les amants qui aiment aujourd’hui

One
rose
white for
Heloise
and Abelard, two souls—
two lovers who do love today

Une
rose
blanche pour
Frédéric
Chopin— l’âme qui jeue
parfums d’une polonaise perdue

One
rose
white for
Frédéric
Chopin— his soul plays
perfumes of a lost Polish dance

Karla Linn Merrifield has had 1000+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 15 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. Her newest poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, recently nominated for the National Book Award, was inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars and published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY). She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. Web site: https://www.karlalinnmerrifield.org/; blog at https://karlalinnmerrifeld.wordpress.com/; Tweet @LinnMerrifiel;