On the fifth floor of the Met Breuer, in an exhibition called “Humor and Fantasy — The Berggruen Paul Klee Collection,” is this untitled Paul Klee watercolor painting from 1914:
A dance program called Shutters Shut was performed among the Paul Klee work by two dancers from the Nederlands Dans Theater who danced in time to Gertrude Stein’s voice reciting her poem “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.”
The dance looked like this:
Thank you, The Ekphrastic Review, for publishing my poem!
You can read it here: http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/that-day-in-assissi-by-michael-janairo
It is inspired by this painting:
Two Days One Night (2014)
Co-workers are asked:
Vote for or against her job.
Is this a real thing?
John Wick (2014)
This guy is angry
He’ll mess you up very bad
Dressed in a sharp suit
Jurassic World (2015)
The brothers bore me
Their aunt, though, and those high heels?
Dinosaurs watch out!
Vengeance (2009)
Gangsters sneak around
Gunfire erupts in Macau
A dad’s mind is lost
Inside Out (2015)
In internal realms
Feelings — not gods — vie to rule
This is mainstream fare?
Love and Mercy (2015)
Living on the edge
Brian Wilson hears so much
Joy in creation
Brooklyn Castle (2012)
Junior high chess champs
Won’t be outplayed by budgets
These kids: They got game
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Big engines go roar
Lots of crazy stuff blows up
— Women rule the day
Gone Girl (2014)
He said or she said
It’s from someone’s point of view
— Unreliable
Spy (2015)
McCarthy goes Bond
Nobody does it better
Oh so much violence
Frances Ha
I didn’t see as many movies as I’d like this past month. Just two:
The Interview (2014)
Randall Park steals it,
Though it isn’t that funny.
— Too much James Franco
Frances Ha (2012)
A Gen-Y woman
In New York and then Paris
Grows up — a little
Read January’s haiku movie reviews here.
Boyhood
Internal Affairs (1990)
Cop flick from long ago
It probably felt dated
When it was released
3 Days to Kill (2014)
A dad and killer
Bossed around by a hot chick
Dumb but fun action
Alex Cross (2012)
Guy from “Lost”? Creepy
Tyler Perry – he can act!
So where’s the sequel?
Strange Days (1995)
Before Y2K
Cops, murder, rape, data discs
A fine mess for Fiennes
Pride (2014)
Gays support miners
In Thatcher’s beastly Britain
Wonderful friendships
Selma (2014)
Protests need clear goals,
Strategies, tactics, leaders
— True courage routs hate
Kon-tiki (2012)
Thor sets out to prove
Islanders came from Peru
— all on one big raft
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Disney wants Poppins
The author has a conflict
With her long dead dad
Boyhood (2014)
Here’s a crushing truth
“I just thought there would be more”
as time marches on
