That scene with the untied shoe . . . pointier
than I would have imagined
following it down the hall
and into the fourth room on the left
with you believing in the grandiloquence
of unpunctuated lives
that arrive with box lunches to boot . . .
fast forwarding to FaceTime . . .
infinitely looped . . . costumes
favoring triple dips . . . on triple decks . . .
in triple headers . . .
enigmatic words silenced in bell jars
bandied in and out of SROs . . .
And where are we, again? . . .
And why am I having trouble remembering
the prize in the Cracker Jack box?
the prize from your brief foray into flash fiction?
The trance-like atmosphere of being short-listed
surely en plein air
as spellbinding as the watchers at the gate . . .
encumbered with semicolons . . .
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| Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne in Jane Campion's Bright Star (2009) |