On the Street Where You Live

by Luce Pelletier and Michael Dylan Welch

First published in Frogpond 49:2, Spring/Summer 2026, page 144. Originally started in May of 2016, but not finished until December of 2025. The streets named are all places where we used to live, and for my verses are in order when I lived there in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Watford, England; and Foster City, California.

old friends

at Le Roi de la Patate—

coffee for a buck Luce

up Thatcher Drive

a scraggly moose Michael

rue Principale—

the younger faces

look familiar Luce

fish and chips

warm through the newspaper

down Courtlands Drive Michael

red traffic lights

on Wilfrid-Laurier Luce

plums in bloom

on Beach Park Boulevard . . .

slow walk to the coffee shop Michael