READING PATRICK MODIANO
(Nobel Prize winner, 2014)

In the Parisian sun
with a hopeful sun
through my French
jealousy window
reading your novel
"Missing Person"
about the Occupation
nervously alone
awakened by these lives
like my radical cousin
Mendes- France
in the Resistance
thanking your words
by furtive corners
transfixed by your images
from my naked eyes
melted by loneliness
about informers and heroes
as echoes of the struggle
now from your geography
where humanity spills
its locution
from a grieving time
of fascism
you bring memory to life.