Saturday, February 27, 2021

Praise Poem for Elliot Page

 PRAISE

            Elliot Page

  for making so many

        movie pictures

     from inside a closet —


his little hands & feet,

             wrists & ankles

splicing scenes between

               the slats

of the accordion doors —


hundreds of frames

             serving as visors

into any # of parallel 

              universes


In scene 3, take 7

he is pregnant

he has a super useless power

he rides a pink bicycle

he plays a white violin


*Snap*  he’s grown from

                     girl to man

in a ghost town, a trailer park,

    a post-apocalyptic past &

a now that still doesn’t quite

                     understand.


12-3-20





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