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After the Film

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on September 2, 2023| 5 Comments »


 
 
We leave the desert flats of Australia
and the axe and the snakes and the flames
and walk into the quiet, starlit night
 
and become two characters in our own lives.
This is the part where the mother and daughter
lean into each other and walk extra close
 
so they can speak in tones so low
the audience can’t hear their words.
The camera follows them with a low angle tracking shot
 
focused on where their hands are joined,
then it tilts to the sky to end the scene
in an extremely wide shot where our characters
 
are barely a blip on the screen,
surrounded by infinite mystery,
the stars, the only lights.

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One at the Film Festival

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 5, 2022| 7 Comments »



 
 
a happy ending, nice,
but what the heart most longs for—
the hairshirt of truth

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One Small Act

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on July 27, 2022| 6 Comments »


after watching hundreds killed in the thriller
I find a spider in my bathroom—
so gently I deliver it outside

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Parting Gift

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on July 31, 2020| 5 Comments »

Parting Gift

Friends, I will be your blooper girl,

your end-of-the-credits buffoon.

You can film me as I fall, as I fail, as I flop,

as I drop the tray of glasses,

as my strapless top slips.

I’ll make it easy on you.

At least twenty times a day

I forget my lines.

At least ninety times a day,

I trip on my certainty.

Yes, I will be the one

who will flub most every punch line.

I’ll be the poster child

for sincere ineptitude.

I know, my outtakes

are better than my A roll.

But dang, the path of failure

has always served me.

And man, most of the time

I can laugh as I blunder,

laugh until you wonder why

I am still laughing,

laugh because what else

can a woman do when

gaffes are her saving grace?

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