Welcome home MissyMarilyn*** You've been missed...
This is amazing, so full of beautiful images. I'm gonna have fun following
this one. :)
Cheerwell, Mary :O)
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> Reel Dreams
>
> Hope is a thing with feathers
> Emily Dickinson
>
>
> I finger my cracked marble beads.
> Hummingbirds purr and incandesce
> their facets. A Popsicle drips
> down my blouse. Lips and tongue
> knocked senseless, dyed grape.
> Screened by wisteria clusters entwined
> with bamboo, I'm inspired by vintage
> films' fire, reach into yellow bellbottoms
> patterned with cowboys and Indians
> for a taboo Pall Mall.
>
> A small gesture, a laugh, a smile
> into sultry perfume. I blow rings,
> cough and flick ashes like Rita
> Hayworth in "Rain," flirt beneath
> a canopy of lashes and strawberry
> blond. The score intoxicates black
> and white. Smoke and scripts
> hang in the air. My lifeblood's
> drenched in celluloid hope. I thrash
> the odds, milling my skill, imagine
> an Oscar at the 74th Awards,
> caress the golden triumph.
>
> Linen lays atop an apple crate.
> Pouring lemonade into Blue Willow
> in which a raspberry floats, I stir,
> pretend an olive twirls in my martini.
> Pimento mesmerizes. From a branch,
> two jays look down their beaks at me.
> The Western figures on my pants
> perform a powwow in silence.
>
> I glance at my stained white, think
> of a scene where the victim's blood
> flows down a shower drain in grays.
> I peck at a cucumber sandwich
> and wile away the shaded day.
>
> This is not a doll house, a place
> of toys, but a romance, an ache
> for a bygone era, a thing with feathers
> carried to my hideaway to open
> a door and hum me into being.
>
> I wish to thank the Academy...
>
>
> Marilyn Injeyan
> April 12, 2001
>
>
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