Rain After Midnight

<p>Most of the pieces in <strong><em>Rain After Midnight</em></strong> can be thought of as filmic as "long story short." The shortness of the form works like the compression required in a good poem.<br />There are four distinct groupings or sets of stories:  One set has to do with film cinema movies; a second springs from thinking about writing what is involved; pieces connected with England make a third grouping; and the fourth is the past that great well.<br />As the French film director Godard said when a reporter asked him if he thought that a film should have a beginning middle and end "Yes. But not necessarily in that order."</p>