THE UNREMEMBERED ELEGANCE OF CINEMA SCREEN CURTAINS

Velvet

of course, they were velvet 

that electric silence when they started to part

it was glorious

the curtains beckoned us to other worlds

we were grateful and eager and we walked through

we, the audience, an intrepid new-born community of explorers and optimists

rarely though, did the film deliver on the curtains promise

and

afterward

we talked of other things as we filed out to O'Connell Street