Tag: film

Cinematography

With the house lights up
It’s easy to notice
The styrofoam
Its imperfections
The flecks of white
Where it’s chipped

The night woods
So dark
The sunny day
So bright

We master the light
Know the science, the art
The secrets of magic

Words
I love them

All the many ways we use them
All the many ways they come to me
All the many ways they coalesce

Promoting insight
Undermining ignorance
Evoking feeling
Forming meaning

Hero
A word of nuance
Of many meanings
Of differences
Subtle and grave

She asked:
Why can’t something just be ugly?

But it can, I replied.

She looked at me. Puzzled.

It just needs to be cinematically ugly.
Which is to say
It must still be beautiful.

Still puzzled.
So I expanded.

“Not all stormtroopers are bad,” she said, coquettishly, while her legs circled, sort of like the trick of a lioness’ tail just before she pounces.

“I hope at least one of them is,” I dead-panned.

She giggled, “Only in a good way!”

It is just a sink. A pair of them, actually. Hard used by the painters and construction for I don’t know how many feature films and TV shows.

Sometimes I am called quite late
To set
On a Friday
In the afternoon

They serve us eggs on toast
With bacon (Gawd, we love bacon!)
We greet each other
“Good morning!”

Three sentinels stand watch
Over the graves of
Cowboys and movie stars
Where the Navajo stand fast