prose poem inspired by Baudelaire’s prose poems « Little poems in prose » published during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. Most of the poems were published in various journals, but  fifty or so of them were published together in 1869, two years after his death, according to the introduction to the small bilingual collection found at Featherston, near Wellington, in a second hand bookstore.

Of course, we talked in the slowness of the day about the taste of chardonnay. The beach was rocky and the wild fennel smelled good. The dog was bored in the water. We would climb the hill, the view, the view of the bay! we would come back next summer. We were lucky  because it was sunny and people were picnicking quietly.