Three photos

Unpacking my photos I find lots from France but I especially like these three.

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                                        Resnais dreaming

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In Brittany

dark grey granite houses
    tuck low into the landscape
like rocks    
   darker hedgerows protect them
     from the winds we walk into
                                 along the coast

small red tractors
      plough patches of pink soil,
             across the narrow road
eschallots burst
   from black plastic groundstrips

this is the kind of place
      you’d locate a film
                   but not live in,
Godard made one here
         but none of us
              remembers it

bleached & tufted grasses conceal
                the purple thistle 
        on the windswept bank
  above a glinting choppy bay

a group of hikers
       singing loudly
strides by    
        just outside the house

& here comes Daniel,
  with a wicker basket 
        of saltwater prawns -
    back from fishing in the rocks

some of the last beret-wearers
       of the 21st century
    are on their knees
             weeding their fields

at sunset
    the rye field blurs
      like double vision

                                        Godard dreaming

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