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Science Film

These autumn colors leave

Me pining for black and white

Grammar school reel to reel

Science films snaking through

The rackety innards of Cold

War film projectors

Chalk motes swarming

In cones of gibbering light

Can-Do Voice-overs

Always a hiccup off

Read by radio men

Sporting pale miens

Pie plate headphones

Slick with Brylcreem

Perhaps a Scholastic short

Featuring two winsome

Child actors playing

The part of you and me

Little button noses

Wrinkled in something

Like stricken joy

At a baby bunny wide

Eyed and stock still

In an apple crate

Under an apple tree

Leaves school in binary

Shimmer on the summer

Breeze blowing through our film

Whether an introduction

To photosynthesis or

The metamorphosis of

Caterpillars hardly matters

To you beribboned in gingham

Or me flying flapping

Dungarees

Platinum hair

Whipping our faces

Sky a china white

Behind ivory billows

Framed forever

Dimpled and laughing

Milkweed exploding

From clumsy fingers like secrets

Shared in alabaster

Sign language.