Montage Triste

The hyacinths intoxicate upon the window-sill and I think of you Intellectual montage – Eisenstein was the first to spell it out and use it memorably; a quick clip of one scene, then another; the agile mind in each of us, connects the two; it’s routine now. The candle on the bath-tub flickers and I think of you One close shot of fires reflected on a window; then a long shot of the beach below, the tents, the fires; then the sky and fatal stars; seen before Eisenstein – read Pope’s Iliad, the night before the fall of Troy; it reads like a shooting-script, a hundred years before film… The sound of church bells down the road and I think of you Then there’s the jump-cut; one scene, then another but what’s the connection; only emotion may later turn the key; this too, poetry may use. The candles on the altar burn, burn as if for ever and I think of you