<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">Seventy Five</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;"> <i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">11 November 2017</i><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">And I think to myself, I’ll remember <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">this early dark and the rain; standing <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">before the toile-draped window, water <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">streaking the glass and dripping <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">from the low, curled iron; leaves of <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">wisteria vines, gold and green, trembling <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">in the November wind that ruffles <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">through the Cour Damoye. <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">I’ll recall Olivier, the coffee man <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">who calls <i class="">bonjour </i>as he brews his exotic <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">dark grinds in a small industrial shop <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">across the cobblestones. <i class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">And of course I can’t forget how <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">one leans full-bodied into the great iron <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">gate to open it at midnight, coming home <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">from salsa-dancing eating a hot dog. <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">I’ll remember every moment in its own way and <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">for it’s own reason or for no reason at all: <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">I’ll remember that on this Parisian lane <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;">I was young one more time <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 27px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Audrey Ward<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="line-height: 20.700000762939453px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>