Michael Bennett
Year: Senior
Major: Film, Television and Digital Media
Hometown: Arlington, TX
Dylan’s fingers scatter over residential jigsaw pieces
smelling antiseptic orange & gray
bone-legs crossed When his hands find one
small & chipped they scramble for its home
It’s a reclamation of power
I know to make broken things whole
Cars crumple into fire on the T.V. set
cabled above he turns his eyes
scab brown to the colored glass casing
sucking in the purple image-bath
Best part a pucker-eyed woman
whispers She drops onto plastic couch-wrap
Villas half-formed lights switch off too awake
to go to that fucking room smile
dripping
between his teeth as the movie snaps to black
and leaves us in eely silence
crackling log-fires he sets
in the ribs of a muddy riverbank