At the bus station, I am sitting in the blue cafeteria at dawn,
watching travelers queue up for a coffee and sit at the tables,
stirring the thin plastic spoon in my cup and smiling to myself.
The day after you left, I walked by the white door that led to your place.
Two neighbors were joking around on the sidewalk, talking about you,
complaining about the empty water bottles that you had thrown out there.
The doctor drives to a small spa town in the outskirts of Prague.
At the wheel, he sees sun-drenched woods flash by the windshield,
his slanted eyes attentive behind his glasses, his hands steady,
speed slightly intoxicating, car whizzing through the mass of trees.
Mélanie Francès was born in Paris on October 18th, 1972, with Canadian and French origins and grew up in France. As a young girl, she lived for four years in New Delhi, India, where she learned English and started a lifelong love story with the language.