Stefania Heim

MOVING PICTURES

Among the can't, smitten with talent,
he is finally found by loneliness. Dirt-poor,
the most enigmatic film. A factory

plagued: his hardscrabble Alice.
Naïve man, affluent apprentice of arrival,
his fantasy of disparate threads, obliterated

by survival. A new, witty, popular,
and dangerous call: in bordello
he realizes an "equilibrium."

Forgot himself
but for the transformation.
That captivating demon.

If not for that talent, he draws supremely,
a hardscrabble portrait, women
physical around.

BAFFLING CASE

Murdered honeymoon, a burglary gone bad.
Cora: embroiled, unraveled, dead. Was an inside

woman on her way to blue awry: famished,
but forgivable. Soon famed gumshoe

checks arrivals in the diminutive town. A host
under suspicion, open-and-shut. Unspin

another everything, there’ll be poison
for your crimes. Years later, we are armed.

COMMERCE IN DREAMS
IS BUSINESS AS USUAL

The fire was started by lightning last Friday.
I’d give anything for something great

to live up to. There are several paths
to actual and only some require rosy

thinking. Tonight, of course, a man-made
constellation. Each game missing

a single piece; what will we make with them?
A fantastic hope, generally regarded

as impossible? I don’t want to tell you
how I’m feeling. Sublimate aggressions:

the hardboiled school. We are living briefly
in the ordered world. We match wits with it.