Fort carré

This morning, in the light blue sky, a square castle stretches out.

For a long time, he raises his arms to the sky, his eyes riveted on the powdery peaks.

- Will I be as high as them? he dreams.

In the very foreground of the shore, he crowns them, indeed.

Then, happily reassured, he beams a broad smile across the city's harbour, embracing the townsfolk with a sea horizon.

Nathalie AUDIN