Neighborhood

Utrillo
Footfalls echoing
upon cold, comforting stone–
the scent of warm bread.

 

(Artwork by Maurice Utrillo)
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The Sisters

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 1943 by Dorothea Tanning born 1910
Bearing the burden
of beauty and mysterious growth
the sisters
kept themselves aloft
and separated from a world
with mostly closed doors
and severely cramped imagination.

 

(Artwork by Dorothea Tanning)
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Smoke

sudek III
Mortal ponderance–
Where did the time go this time?
Smoke favors silence.

 

(Photo by Josef Sudek)

 

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Apple

sudek apple
The apple
doesn’t beg to be loved,
it keeps still,
appling to the utmost,
as rain and sunlight
seep into
the gravity of its core.

 

(Photo by Josef Sudek)
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Once Removed

sudek 9
Estranged, yet aloft,
in a world her vision sculpts–
Adulthood far off.

 

(Photo by Josef Sudek)

 

 

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Typeface

typewriter-669353_640
This machine
kills the seeds of fascism
by establishing ritualized patterns
of beauty
and delicate order,
its lines level
the playing field
with utmost mercy
and precision–
Hurry Now, Act Quickly,
and type your heart out,
and we’ll throw in
the keys to the kingdom
at no extra charge.
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Dominion

twin peaks
Living becomes a habit,
a surging one that’s hard to break.
But death, its sworn mate
with the notorious reputation,
always lurks beneath,
a husking catalyst
bent on dreamless repose,
and the pooling of changes
to seed the furtherance of plot.
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Summer’s Last Song

summertime sadness
How very closely
a pose of triumph mimics
grounding, before flight.
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Cuckoo

 

Cuckoos

Surreal torch song meets Laurel and Hardy in the Twilight Zone in this short film set in a one-room universe.
Cuckoo-for-Cinema fundraising campaign coming soon, as we begin the intial stages in our inspired flight into the wild celluloid yonder.

 

 

 

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The Looking Glass

TV image, first ever, 1926
It was how
we decided to see ourselves,
tailored to a fit
of original distortion,
which, over time,
would be clarified
to a point
of unimaginable error
and distraction.

 

(First ever TV image, 1926)
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