Poems
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The widest wide shot
By Briohny DoyleThe widest wide shot. Opens on the sick
bed
in my heart where you lie
convalescing in red. -
SPLICE (40 lines i wish i’d written from films i wish i’d seen)
By Nathan Shepherdson1
/ you are watching artifice murmur to an object /
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/ the chair you are sitting on would make a more reliable witness / -
Poetry Picture Show tryptich
By Ivy AlvarezJUMP CUT TO:
EXT: GALAXY DRIVE-IN. NIGHT.
the tip-tilted car rears back
as if in a vision -
When Ladies Meet
By Kate LilleyGoodbye Mama, you made me what I am
Impeccable, light-fingered little Marnie/Margaret/Peggy
You can keep the mink I stole for you
I'm young and if I go now I won't have to lose my mind -
The Limitations of Form
By Sarah Holland-Batt- After Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up
What we know about form
we keep governed with limitations,
so experience assumes only a certain -
Paris Blues
By John TranterIt's the early sixties: before heroin,
before herpes and AIDS ruined things,
before the women's movement.
Jack Kerouac is still alive, though only just, -
Karin Revisited
By David Prater"Blind, gutsy and gifted
Karin discovers life, love
and independence through
learning how to dance." -
The Negative Cutter: An Introduction to Editing
By Felicity Plunkett1. Establishing Shot
'A shot, usually involving a distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects and setting in a scene.'
The doctor hands you a splinter.
You hold it carefully. You wrap and tend it, -
Bollywood Lyric
By Emma JonesDeus ex machina! Not all movies are Westerns.
Or musicals either, though John Wayne started out
as 'The Singing Cowboy'. And then there is 'Sholay'.
And spaghetti westerns. And in all of them