Loving on Movies


Cold, enduring mammals, tresses of aviation from
last century’s manner brought moors to life, then ordained
contracts with whomever seemed arresting or fit for envy, masts
of nothing significant laterally known as between. Emasculating
the unfortunate laps of river ribbons, to have known every hem
prophetic and private, if pleasing, relations diverted the
woods of which a mother—men smiling and seeming
soulful—was a sweeping whiteness toward scruples,
furrowed against the wife of grinning, a script of the
startling kind, her often witnessing laconic nights
writ large of bargains, no singing sorted down.

So a belying no more exists for hats of satisfaction than
for the story of this man: a lost ligature bargaining one
of its selves into nothing undone, available from the
optimal sea scenery that those small (very small) beings
ever wanted; that is what I know, and that truthfully.

Ah, that would make a better story; nothing actually has to happen, a map has a dream, delicate edges bleeding undone in the movies—they make so we should imagine: a car at the end of a road in Saint Luis Obispo, a pool, a bakery, shoes and the hot car, a dream with a big lake—give me this one self-preservation, this machine I made. For when it rained reason had to, red boat, a woman in a white coat, reasoned pulling over, take cover, quiet the world all day. Won’t you lay a room and the rain on a woman’s voice squeaking, an island coming into the sea, I thought it was no bother, this insistence on marriage, squeak, the red sill waiting the afternoon.