Wednesday 25 April 2018

conno(r)tations 25 combustible


his glare
is corrosive
it eats you like
setting light to celluloid
you're suddenly as combustible
as nitrate film stock
he burns a hole through
the middle of your mise-en-scene, serenely
incinerates the cine-film
of your life*



For more on Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), see Opinion8: Career-defining Roles.
For more on Christian Kane (Lindsey McDonald in Angel), see


*Apologies to science.




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