Unspooling Larger Than Life

a flicker, then form shadows breathing light onto a stretched canvas stories unspooling larger than life yet somehow mirroring the cramped spaces of our hearts a hero's jawline, sharp a tear tracing a painted cheek emotions amplified, distilled a collective sigh in the dark we sit, suspended believing for a fragile hour in impossible loves in justice served with a final shot the reel spins on capturing moments that never were or perhaps were, intensely in someone else's imagined world and when the lights come up the spell breaks but a residue lingers a question in the way we see the mundane street outside now framed, somehow with a cinematic edge. ©bfa042125