Review of Silent Movie (1976) by Tammy L — 13 Mar 2007

Shine on me luminous today, and shine on past the tops of my shoulders.

Show my feet the step ahead, stay hope on the gilded road to dawn.

All the world must forget me now, as scattering ravens its memory flown.

And bury my years in bone and ash, please spare not yesterday its tomb.

Take me where the song needs singing, take me to the time I'm gone.

Where dust of higher things float free, and boughs of ancient forests yawn.

Of quiet excite in empty theaters, that merry shadow dance is mine.

The truth of dreams is morrow's words, a verse away from being known.

So as one concedes Imagine's game, its buoyant laughter wise and long.

I leave my eyes and better lives, embalming pulse of showers loom.

To walk this path of blinding summits, a thousand kings away from golden.