QUEBEC CITY

Celebrating
La fete de La Nouvelle France
Joyful and light
Thousands in trance
In delight and dance,
On August days
At city square.
Singers with guitars,
Children on the cars
Maidens to and fro
Dancing with their beaus
Old men afar
Looking with envy
At young men's guile
All in costumes bygone
Mary Antoinette's coiffure
Louis XVI's pantaloon.
Stranger,
I feel at one
With a people
So lost in the past.
Je me souvien aussi.

Majid Tehranian
Quebec City
August 3, 2000