Traffic of the narrow platform

memory of Marcel Carné

          

                                                

 Departures and arrivals

 seem to carry the same

 moment on a span where

 nothing gathers because

 it isn't zoned for it,

 adepts of the balance

 beam reversing vector

 fluidly.

      

Let us shape, shape residues -
or are they vestiges? -
I debate with the man no one wanted aboard. 


Shape, trace; or shape, sculpt?
Shape past, or shape future? 


Shape, forget me well. Shape now. 


One has not the blame one needs, 
to do that. Forget me first.

Not inaudibly enough, the day comes up.  

Marcel Carné, director
Jacques Prévert, scénario
Alexandre Trauner, décor
Le jour se lève
Marcel Carné, 1939©