Watching the Oscars
Shallow—you say. I agree—Meaningless glitter.
Still, it is less ordinary
than the laundry, the commuting of our suburban story.
Spiraling creamy gowns and upright tuxedoes pose; they story-
tell tonight. They glitter
like dewdropped calla lilies; their ordinary
selves dormant, rhizomes that burrow into ordinary
muck, compost detritus into story.
Their motion pictures flicker out from shadow, flashes of glitter,
drawing us to our reflection, our stories. See—they say—your ordinary glittering life.
Little Patuxent Review
Watching the Oscars was first published in Issue 23 of Little Patuxent Review in the winter of 2018
Mabel reading at Launch
See a video of me reading Watching the Oscars at the Launch of Little Patuxent Review’s 23rd Issue on February 5, 2018