A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood

 Great film.  Amazing acting from Tom Hanks.

Eva Griffin - "Soko sucking on Kristen's fingers, 2016"

 

Soko sucking on Kristen’s fingers, 2016

Eva Griffin

Hands on the window she
wears the red like a challenge
all dotted up in the parking lot.
I hadn’t washed my hair that morning just
tussled it on my way out to meet her
curls wet, tucked neat
into a baseball cap.
I can’t even see her eyes,
my own face in the frames
suspended there between
smoke breaks and grease.
When she takes my finger in her
mouth it feels like I’m being fed,
I hold her tight by the nail
of my thumb and let her wash
over me pink. Cheeks fill fast
counting the white polka dots
on her blouse until it all blurs or
turns into my open mouth or
the sun disc of my reflection or
all the buttons I’ve ever undone or
her becoming the endless pattern or
her in the doorway of our bedroom or
thick cream left in the fridge to spoil or
skin left wrinkling in the bath or
the towel peeled open, discarded or
fresh sheets screaming on the floor or
her small breasts hanging over me or
a second of breath before laughter or
sitting on the edge of the mattress afterwards
bridle roses unfurling from my chest
the vines whispering hello I love
you is it enough to make time slow
down until we are just this:
committed onto canvas
messy, half-asleep, sitting in my car and
reaching.

Tunnel 29

 10 episode series about "Tunnel 29," a tunnel dug under the Berlin Wall, rescueing 29 people.

Interesting enough, but I've been spoiled by "Shit town" and the such. Not as intense, somehow.