Lighting Scheme

Untitled Film Still #53 1980, reprinted 1998 by Cindy Sherman born 1954
Illuminated,
but with razors,
the shadow found a face
to give its cinematic debut
a twist on types fitted
to escape plans
in small, forgotten rooms.

 

(Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Fall in the City

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There were too many pieces to the puzzle,
too many keen faults in the symmetry.
She locked eyes
with the darkened window
of the building across the street,
and when vertigo took the elevator
down to meet her where she was standing,
shaky and unsure,
she braced herself
for the kind of falling
that no one ever saw.

 

(Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Neverending

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An epic fable,
resounded by the wind’s score–
Stories, sown from lore.
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Elements in the Making

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Lone tree on the hill,
has nothing to say to sky–
Praise, moved to silence.
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His and Hers

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I saw us, my love,
long after we were gone–
Ghosts of lives, well-worn.
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Here’s Looking at Us

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Is this not the art
and trick to being human,
and in love?
A matter of perspective,
a rooted widening,
wherein distances
harbor the marvels
of intimacy
in rapt enclosure?
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Her

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She, the mystery,
to whom I turn toward, falling,
with light in my eyes.
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Corner Shot

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The word on the street
kept him waiting for a dame
made of ink-wet dreams.
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Coquetry

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The sea’s salt-fringed skirt
glistens, while flashing rare pearls-
Shoreline pants, waiting.

 

 

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What Lasts

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Renewal,
in nuptial surges
and capered bibs
of froth;
the stones,
studded to shore,
ennoble the silence
of their music
to the fondling sea,
mates playing freely
on the wild fadeless cusp
of here
and forevermore.
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