Anyone short a Valentine?

I honestly do
not think so.

    It was not a bad couple of weeks
    of lawyering for loyalty and re-
    ality, by the most consequential
    Acting Attorney General since we
    lived with the Nixon crime wave;
    
    and yes, for unconditional love.

  An astounding
  inevitability
  circumscribes
  the Valentine
  she delivered
  to the People.

  Tell this for
  those waiting
  off our shore.






      I asked why
      the halo

      does he
      survive

      by art
      by virtue

      by night
      I saw the rust

      around his eyes
      I saw why

      the halo,
      why he wept.




















Denis Bold
Hinge
  The Iron Dog
  [extract]
2015
op. cit.


Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Cercle Rouge
1970