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Essays by Stacy Szymaszek
Postcard: Read a lot...
The Letter Q: Stacy Szymaszek
Poems About Movies
Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
by A. Van Jordan
A Score for Tourist Movies
by Mary Austin Speaker
After the Movie
by Marie Howe
An American in Hollywood
by Frank Bidart
Ave Maria
by Frank O'Hara
Brad Pitt
by Aaron Smith
Chaplinesque
by Hart Crane
Daffy Duck In Hollywood
by John Ashbery
French Movie
by David Lehman
Heroic Simile
by Robert Hass
Homage to Sharon Stone
by Lynn Emanuel
Old Boy
by A. Van Jordan
On the Waterfront
by B. H. Fairchild
To the Film Industry in Crisis
by Frank O'Hara
Trigger Guard
by Joanna Fuhrman
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Au Hasard Balthazar

 
by Stacy Szymaszek

1974 I start
a memo on
dreadful vision

of Christian mildness
amidst Christian perps

bringing an evil
to hymns

evaporates 
water stations

I can wait
                a Polish actress

wide-set 50 mm
eyes restrictive 
yet yield surprise

my lap 
made of muscle

        knee caps
			
                        shoots    of errant hair

in that moment I understand
French 
        my hand 

took place	

opus of
safe infant 
heads 

listen bud

no static guard 
on my acolyte robe 
as we learned last Sunday
flammable 

another class of girl
wants to be destroyed

donned "beef 
cake" by summer
crown of blue 
ribbon

now on a mantle 
house in a field

my animal
lives with sheep

feel bad that I beat you

problem with
only offering 
two options









Copyright © 2012 by Stacy Szymaszek. Used with permission of the author.
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