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Joanna Ezekiel was born in Essex. Since 1998, she has had over 60 poems published in magazines, journals, and ezines. Joanna has an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development from Sussex University.
Buying a ticket for one.
Pronouncing the name of the film correctly.
Waiting with other matinee-goers –
students, tourists,
a woman with her arm
through her mother’s frail arm,
while film-star cardboard cut-outs
wobble, smiling, on the red carpet.
Choosing a seat, its groan
as she pushes it down,
folding her coat, clutching her bag –
thieves are sssilent.
She hears a cough.
She hears the crunch of popcorn.
Nobody in front of her
nobody to her left or to her right,
the lights dimming –
a slow eclipse of the world.
Poem published: Envoi 142, 2005, as part of the She Dreams sequence of poems
Publications:
Safe Passage, 2007, White Leaf Press
A Braid of Words, 2003, Poetry Monthly Press
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