budding into the role of a young queen or trying to
who would have noticed then a few from the Old School
when everything relied on the tit for the tat
witticisms in the back rooms.. so young to be crowned...
and then, to lose..
so waiting in the wings, she dreams she is Mary
and the dreaming seems to compensate for anything
irregular or like a bird half caught in the net of a scene
she knows the role what it could mean if she could branch farther
out on untried wings, brittle
imaginings
and she does so tremulously the camera almost weeps
the key light grieves in flickering cadences
but this is a clip joint hollywood that doesnt like the sentimental
anymore and pictures it fading
waiting at the stage door calla lily face; they want: ready for it's
big break certainly on the make what
wants to be modern pacing the city filled with asides
that will not see Katharine as the bride of time most rare
she envisions, she longs to be
nor Mary either though the images are there;the dear ghosts too
she longs to demonstrate her face can turn to snow to gestures
from so long ago
even if she could and even if she did
the audience wouldnt have understood
the directors would have been irritated
she is oblivious to that her face falters her eyes
and for a moment the two faces merge
both in the tower both tres sweet before dark doom
how visible how with so much pearl her soul is laden now
bent to the light and inexplicably radiant
perhaps there are lines unheard
rehearsed with angels;they certainly are cut
while the footlights are too jazzy
the raz mah taz in the next room taps its toe shoes underneath it
that will not see Katharine as the bride of time most rare
she envisions, she longs to be
nor Mary either though the images are there;the dear ghosts too
she longs to demonstrate her face can turn to snow to gestures
from so long ago
even if she could and even if she did
the audience wouldnt have understood
the directors would have been irritated
she is oblivious to that her face falters her eyes
and for a moment the two faces merge
both in the tower both tres sweet before dark doom
how visible how with so much pearl her soul is laden now
bent to the light and inexplicably radiant
perhaps there are lines unheard
rehearsed with angels;they certainly are cut
while the footlights are too jazzy
the raz mah taz in the next room taps its toe shoes underneath it
all bored and chewing gum
undermining the fourth wall
and swivels a hip (while Katharine is rapt)
impatient to make this show biz not the antique
curtain call where people rise from theatre seats transformed
for Katharine wanting it all to be so beautiful
as if Bernhardt rose
and rose again; or, Hepburn on her own
to the classic metier of the fate set out
set in stone with no more recourse oh Mary, Mary
to the classic metier of the fate set out
set in stone with no more recourse oh Mary, Mary
losing the throne and love and life and Spring
behind the film another scene is there pristine
of Katharine striving with the air.the tempo of the time
Katharine subsumed in Mary most tragically composed
Katharine Hepburn prescient and so beyond the role now
no critic will comprehend;such transfiguration was there
such -capacity
from the very start though the coda is played unevenly
because they despise such sublimity; such art;
they are jaded;
the heart torn to achieve such ends
even in a nascent form
behind the film another scene is there pristine
of Katharine striving with the air.the tempo of the time
Katharine subsumed in Mary most tragically composed
Katharine Hepburn prescient and so beyond the role now
no critic will comprehend;such transfiguration was there
such -capacity
from the very start though the coda is played unevenly
because they despise such sublimity; such art;
they are jaded;
the heart torn to achieve such ends
even in a nascent form
disgusts them.
mary angela douglas 9 may 2020a
mary angela douglas 9 may 2020a
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