Saturday, August 12, 2017

Yesterday's Theater

























Back to the Grand lake
first time in decades
last film I recall seeing here
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
first run




I'll be right back,
Splash Pad











First got to cop
my ticket


Under the crystal chandelier
I hand in my six dollars
for a matinee at 2:15




Back to the Park
not to splash down
so much as to
blast off




Back inside
with not so much
eyes you've not used yet
but with a refreshed mindset


Almost show time



Contemplation
of timeless truths
 courage
and suffering


 
In aged splendor



Time-honored
Emergency Exit








Dreams are
your ticket out










An antique curtain,
all that it bespeaks




A Magic Carpet



Turning to gold
in enhanced
perception



Turning into
the fabric of dreams


 
Red window
of the end of the world



The Mothership
rumbles
overhead



The lights go down
the archetypal experience
of a dream
begins in darkness



The curtain rises




 

A glorious experience
not a war movie
more raw survival
on land on the sea
 and in the sky
incredibly filmed


Projected in glorious 70 MM
ones flies low over water
 existential
enduration
in verisimilitude








Settee
As old as Europe itself
 Time to descend past
the crystal chandelier
and out to daylight
again





DUNKIRK
where I've actually been
in 1985,
where the night train
from London to Paris
hops the channel


Wearied but elated
now it's back out
into the real world













11 August 2017



No comments: