Many years ago I watched a movie at an arts festival
It was called Brief Crossing and was directed by Catherine Breillat
In short it was about a young French man who meets an older English woman
They connect and end up making love as the ferry travels from France to England
In my youth I quite frequently travelled
To France and back on these ferries
But this never happened to me
As I was always on deck watching my England fade
I now live on the coast and can clearly see the ferries crossing
They seem to glide across the silver sea in all weathers
What brief dramas are being played out I wonder
If any at all as for most life is by its very nature is rather predictable
Guy French