Anthony Borruso
Love-Sloshed Cinema
I want you laced in celluloid—
the script torched, tossed—
This is not an act. It’s love
as we learned it. Technicolor
big band: burly trombones—
I want you laced in tempestuous
trumpets, a slicked-back Sinatra
deepening night’s hues.
This is not an act, it’s love;
umbrella-less, rain-drenched,
Gene Kelly stomping down the wet set,
I want you. Laced in celluloid,
intoxicated, both of us, ruthlessly
ransacked, a deep-cut red dress,
not an act. I want love, Love,
sliding from a string quartet
as we melt into melodrama and gin.
Anthony Borruso has an MFA in creative writing from Butler University and has been a reader for Booth: A Journal. He suffers from Chiari Malformation and sometimes examines this in his poetry. Currently, he teaches composition at Butler University and Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Radar Poetry, and Canary.
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I want you laced in celluloid—
the script torched, tossed—
This is not an act. It’s love
as we learned it. Technicolor
big band: burly trombones—
I want you laced in tempestuous
trumpets, a slicked-back Sinatra
deepening night’s hues.
This is not an act, it’s love;
umbrella-less, rain-drenched,
Gene Kelly stomping down the wet set,
I want you. Laced in celluloid,
intoxicated, both of us, ruthlessly
ransacked, a deep-cut red dress,
not an act. I want love, Love,
sliding from a string quartet
as we melt into melodrama and gin.
Anthony Borruso has an MFA in creative writing from Butler University and has been a reader for Booth: A Journal. He suffers from Chiari Malformation and sometimes examines this in his poetry. Currently, he teaches composition at Butler University and Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Radar Poetry, and Canary.
Return to January 2019 Edition