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.

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[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.