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[rayheinrich]

The ice finally broke on the Yugosha River
after a deep, sturdy winter;
I know this because a friend that lives there
sent me a picture, in the first slushy moments
while the sun slanted against the empty water.

I remembered it when I looked through the rows,
rows and stacks, stacks of rows of movies,
caseless in yellow paper sleeves
with clear parts showing the DVD
like the clear parts of Dorito bags
that used to show you what you were getting.

Something that would remind me of cold weather
and night, like Fargo, or, I think,
that one called The Night Listener,
or the swedish vampire movie with the little girl
and the boy where he's getting bullied.
I thought of The Thing, or one I saw one time
with Ron Perlman and a team of scientists
somewhere in Alaska.

I thought they would have Gremlins or something like that,
though I already have that one;
but they had I [heart] Huckabees which I liked
in my philosophical days.

So I went home and watched the vampire movie,
because they did have that.

Forgive me, I was so distracted by wealth and vampires that
I forgot to mention your poem. What I especially liked was
how you used the titles/films as symbols of meaning, as the
language you used to write the poem. So much resonance!
(Have written a note to myself, must remember this.)