(@russell.j.turner) This year we are using fi@leannemodenpoets from the Sight and Sound 2022 list as prompts Fifth up from me is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul (1974 - #52), heavily informed by my own experience of love across an age divide For you are so much younger yet possessed with wisdom way beyond my scatterbrain ‒ we meet in bars, we shelter from the rain, cocooned from animosity and jest. We build a monument to stand the test of time and love, to sing an old refrain which slowly fades into a frosty pain ‒ we feather and then flee our little nest But this is not some different land or age or circumstance, we do not face the fear and ignorance that others must abide ‒ conclusion comes from what I cannot cage, the darkness that in time may disappear beneath the waters of some tranquil tide RJT