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