Projector Let Through

down the main aisles of a movie theater,

cranial malformations of popcorn are crushed.

the brittle knockabouts of a cannibal's

unstrung necklace--left to the ritualized

red of Hollywood's carpet.

the flashlight of a theater attendant stretches

out its beam, to pinned concentrations.

just as the movie screen becomes the bubbling,

gaping hole of burnt film.

the projector let through, flickering back its raw

form.