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