Take Shelter [2011]
1. “Is anyone else seeing this?”
2. A knife on the drainboard, covered with flies.
3. He holds out his hand, trembling, keyring looped around his finger.
Take Shelter [2011]
1. “Is anyone else seeing this?”
2. A knife on the drainboard, covered with flies.
3. He holds out his hand, trembling, keyring looped around his finger.
Visible from the
Street a window piled high with
Assorted Christmas
First take this broken
Feeling and make it yours and
Then get out of bed
At 5:45
A partial solar eclipse
Last chance for 3 years
Songs about waiting
And songs about hanging up
Songs about leaving
Five bags on each arm
They haltingly squeeze themselves
Through the taxi’s door
Across the carpet
Creeps a red wine rivulet
Courtesy her cat
National Gallery [2014]
1. Varnish. Shiny, buffed floors.
2. A hunting horn, a lobster, a peeled lemon.
3. He collects the tiniest possible sample and places it on a glass slide.
Phenomenal.
Golden rooftops wet
Shadows dissolving sunset
Hands in your pockets
The Laughing Policeman [1973]
1. Chivas Regal and rubbers.
2. “Did she go out with a lot of men?”
“She didn’t go out with men … at all.”
3. The table legs are actually legs.