(@russell.j.turner) This year we are using fi@leannemodenpoets from the Sight and Sound 2022 list as prompts Second up from me is Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973 - #66), primarily influenced by my own visit to Senegal and Dakar about thirty years ago, particularly Île de Gorée and Maison des Esclaves (plus a small anachronistic nod to the Paris-Dakar) The road to Paris ploughs through seas and schemes ‒ this motorbike won’t navigate those sands whose shifting currents hide the whispered lands. As ships sail out to all the world’s extremes not far from Gorée’s echoed age-old screams, where memory and monument still stands to mark the manacles and fiery brands that bled to manifest another’s dreams Within the embassies we wait and yearn for slips of paper worth their weight in gold, as dimly then distinctly we discern hyenas that bamboozle, thieve and burn foundations of the constructs we’ve been sold ‒ illusions of departure and return RJT