what I want from my cinema

first and foremost
your conspiratorial smile

and secondly
sex and subversion

a third thing would be
your hand on my arm

fourthly
evidence of a natural order
perhaps an invisible natural order
something

fifth item
an offer to sip your drink

number six
no actorly nuance and no
storytelling
not even remarkable storytelling

seventh
the day before
when I watched you
close your eyes and sneeze

eight
spectral glare
and omissions
and wild pans and swivels

the ninth
lipstick-on-the-mirror tropes may be tired
but I never tire of them

and tenth
an asynchronous approach to sound
with ravenous and murderous montage

with eleven
we find you back at the house

at twelve
I’m still out
still muttering comments
to the seat where you sat

by thirteen
I want walk-outs
because some folks just don’t get it

14
why is it where you are
is more real
than where I am

with the fifteenth
we discern a shift
surfaces dematerialize
grains and gaps

sweet sixteen
finding friends
in the dark

17:
political economy
frame by frame

for the eighteenth
time
and time again
you
and time and again

20th
dissections
discussions
destructions

twenty and one
the age of the morning
you the bed’s harvest light

twenty-second:
timing the cuts
the bolts and the nuts
the ifs ands and buts

twenty-three
every room laughs
when you do
momentary mayhem

24.
waiting it out
with what’s on the screen
wanting
to show you
what I’ve seen