{"id":4101,"date":"2020-09-02T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2020-09-02T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:19:38","slug":"ghost-town-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/ghost-town-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Town in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"
In my dream Catherine Deneuve and Jean Reno were sitting on a veranda<\/div>\n
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It is the middle of the day and they are enjoying lavender\u00a0coffee<\/div>\n
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Their daughter\u00a0who is played by Astrid Berges-Frisbey is deaf<\/div>\n
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She is haunting the shadows but is acutely\u00a0aware of her parents conversation<\/div>\n
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Helene is looking out towards the desert and tells her husband that she can see a small town<\/div>\n
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It is hovering above the dunes\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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Jean tells her that it is a mirage as no such town exists<\/div>\n
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You are witnessing nothing\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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Nothing exists in that wilderness\u00a0nothing survives\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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I can see people walking along its streets\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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Jean calls his daughter from the shadows\u00a0and asks her if she can see a thriving town deep amongst the dunes<\/div>\n
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Agnes does not answer as she has failed to read her fathers lips<\/div>\n
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It is an expression of disinterest<\/div>\n
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Her father is used to her insolence and ignores his daughter<\/div>\n
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She fiddles with the collar of her cotton shirt and returns to her book<\/div>\n
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It is an American pulp novel<\/div>\n
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In the distance a tall Arab boy is walking\u00a0towards their home<\/div>\n
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He is carrying a machete<\/div>\n
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The Arab has come to murder us and rape our beautiful daughter<\/i><\/div>\n
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Jean raises an imaginary rifle and shoots the Arab dead<\/div>\n
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He does this three times as ghosts are not easily destroyed<\/div>\n
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Agnes rushes down the wooden steps and holds the dying Arab in her arms<\/div>\n
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He is bleeding heavily from a head wound<\/div>\n
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His blood is slowly staining her cotton shirt<\/div>\n
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She stares stares at her parents who are drinking lavender coffee in the shade of their house<\/div>\n
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The Arab dies and Agnes kisses his wound<\/div>\n
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She tastes his fatal blood<\/div>\n
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Our daughter is walking into the desert\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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She will perish in the heat\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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Do not worry Helene as I have seen her taking this journey many times before\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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She is listening to the music of the desert\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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And always returns to her shuttered room\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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In my dream Catherine Deneuve and Jean Reno were sitting on a veranda It is the middle of the day and they are enjoying lavender\u00a0coffee Their daughter\u00a0who is played by Astrid Berges-Frisbey is deaf She is haunting the shadows but is acutely\u00a0aware of her parents conversation Helene is looking out towards the desert and tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}