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CINEMA

A naked bulb
in passive space
a kinesis
of grace

shutters the beam
a shower of grain
in our darkness
the unseen

witnesses we
see we receive
the lucid birth
we leave

our colour drawn
from that surface
of cut image
and still face

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Unknown's avatarAuthor James LindesayPosted on 1st Jul 2020

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