Saturday, February 28, 2015

O Illinois: Reflections on Postcards in Film




O Illinois

I’m sending you a Hollywood postcard

a Collateral[1]lush island visor

a Dark City[2]Shell Beach nightmare


a six-year-old’s walk
on packed sand

bending for green sea glass

stretching toward gorged pelicans

climbing a palmetto lined sea wall
when the sun blisters.


In a neighbor’s yard
dogs race around a collapsed pool.

A boxer jumps a fence

landing in soft snow.








[1] Collateral. Dir. Michael Mann. Perf. Tom Cruise, Jamie Fox. Paramount, 2004. DVD.
[2] Dark City. Dir. Alex Proyas. Perf. Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly. New Line Cinema, 1998. DVD.

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