Extinct Chivalry
In the movie
'Brief Encounter '
I wonder if Celia Johnson was terribly naive
to allow
Trevor Howard
to get away with it
back in 1945
I'm not referring to
the illicit affair
How was he able
to solicitously remove a piece of grit from her eye
from the hurtling express train
I can only surmise that he did not blow or wipe his nose
once that day and yet
there in the railway buffet in
Carnforth Station
In a single act of chivalry
he pulls out of his pocket of germs
a clean cotton handkerchief
from the darkest regions
amongst the
Amazonian jungle vines
swinging green in
the damp rain forest's
lurking in the stringy
ironed corners
of embroidered love..
Avie.
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