Poems by Rosemary Norman from videos by Stuart Pound click here for synopses & stills, clips & index KISSING IN HATS   Kissing in hats before they go to war - the angle of the brims, the tilted faces the platform's edge, the open carriage door a hand at waist or shoulder, nothing more because they never kiss in public places or kissed in hats until they went to war and learned to kiss by trains, a kiss to draw in one all past and possible embraces by platform's edge, by open carriage door in buttoned overcoats and hats secure with pins and little veils, their unclad faces kissing in hats. And then they went to war and train and platform stretch for evermore and all the couples keep appointed places at platform's edge, at every carriage door to kiss in black and white, in love, unsure who took, or not, the last of their embraces in hats, kissing before they went to war. O platform's edge. O open carriage door.