Palming the Forehead the quick lunch gulping a coconut flavored la croix to wash down bar-b-q pork skins the snapshots of the grey-beard head developer negative plate and red light i can't shake a memory shot through with shape and flesh-tone color my chest-beating breathing rapid eye movement round smooth wet flickering my forehead movie-screen of the casting for ziegfeld frolics running up and down the state route 66 curves but the theater is closed no filmed all-nighters for years behind closed doors the tragedy masks replaced by cloth the projector room lens is cracked covered with a dusty sheet just crickets and an asian stink bug by the sink this morning in my denture cup 4.7 10/10 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
Palming the Forehead
09
May