falling out of an ice-box
like Heinie Conklin
is a moment
our biographies of summer colds
& winter squash sidle
we are back in the dark
among forgotten royalty
Joan Woodbury Belita Ann Corio
princesses of Poverty Row
darkness is real
growing population of memorial cards
stuck in a bible
darkness is creatd
Tex Ritter & Snub Pollard
evading bad boy gun play
it's all darkness
Bela or Boris
gumshoe under lamppost
rewind to the Lincoln
long narrow theater of childhood
saturday matinee double feature
imprinting shadows forever
barefoot boy in man's country
(Frankie Darro was one of Mom's favorites)
holds hands with cousin
decades careen around corner
cop car in Chinatown
everyone searching for Temple of Eternal Flame
Lincoln long gone
its flame still flickers
in forever shadows
cut to a young Mitchum
in trenchcoat
walking into the frame
another moment
before nite
swallows me
2 comments:
Well that was a lot of "Google-ing" dear. But well worth it. A special treat from the poet of the changing shadows of celebrity.
thx Bill.
not so much google-ing actually. I'm a huge fan of Monogram Pictures & watching a Keye Luke drama the other nite ignitd this.
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