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2011, 7*, aircraft, attention, Batman, belief, black, blue, Christmas, city, dawn, east, fear, glass, green, guilt, ink, movement, night, others, purple, river, rooftops, roses, shadow, shops, silence, sky, skyline, smile, sound, south, stars, stone, streetlight, windows, writing
the silent night of the Batman
even while they carried their
gift-wrapped parcels and looked
to each other with smiles of belief
the shop signs hummed dark
against the marbled frontage
while above the quiet floors
of stone-framed window looked east
looked south all the same in ink-black sky
enough to write a novel in a single sitting
enough to hold a fleet of stars
above the skyline stacking slowly
when the sky turns ink-green the rooftop
gathers ink-blue attention and leaps
without step or swing through the
glass and cornice of city vistas and
lingering thought to shadow the guilt
to alley the share to streetlamp the fear
and river the rose cast high and wide to the stars
until marzipan fingers reach across the
ink-purple sky and marshmallow lights
go out
‘The Silent Night of the Batman‘ in Batman #219, Feb 1970; writer: Mike Friedrich; art: Neal Adams; inks: Dick Giordano
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
attention & glass wormhole: a light rosé
Batman & streetlight wormhole: Christmas
black wormhole: letters to Mum V – carrying on in duty and love
blue & purple wormhole: ‘anyway / is it all just / a dream?’
Christmas & green wormhole: ‘green post …’
city wormhole: multifarious: the Dark Knight Returns (1986)
dawn wormhole: tag cloud poem V – draft-ness
night wormhole: glass
others wormhole: Dr Strange V – all the words of all the times of all the worlds speak
river & rooftops & shadow & sky & stone wormhole: Kirby’s landscapes
shops wormhole: Matildenplatz / & Luisen
silence wormhole: bass and piano
skyline wormhole: Dr Strange I – the trashcan tilted the better to see now the street
smile wormhole: tong // len
sound wormhole: ‘the blues shifted …’
stars wormhole: oh-pen
windows wormhole: the Last Day of Morecambe Illuminations
writing wormhole: sometimes
This reminds me of the gingerbread diorama we just made. The theme was natural disasters.
Love “marzipan fingers” and “marshmallow lights”—sweet!
Interesting since I I find the entire poem quite savory.
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I’ve just been looking at my 2014 celebratory fireworks from WordPress and you are one of my most prolific reader/commenters; thank you, Jilanne
… now I found the poem inky – the sort when using a fountain pen and suckling the end and quite enjoying the different colours we write in … or maybe I’m talking too much …!
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Ah yes, The Silent Night of Batman, a night that shall live in inktomy.
I enjoy reading and commenting on your work. My pleasure!
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