Cinema

Grey light unfurls.
Venetian blinded.
Viene, viene la mattina.
Ecco la mia vicina.

Limbs rattle, shake,
Grinding, slither, snake.
Muscle searing ache
Giveth, then mistake.

Lids flicker.
Thicket, thicker,
Pasty recollections,
Dreamy dry reflections.

Images, reduced to memory
Faded focus.
Hocus pocus.
Frame after frame.

Still, this boiling cinema
Reels between my eyes.
Image carved from atmosphere.
Squeezed and synthesized.


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