Welcome to David Selzer
David Selzer is a writer of poetry, prose fiction, screenplays and stage plays. He embraces digital platforms to share his work of more than fifty years… READ MORE
Latest Post / Update
-
AFTER THE PANTOMIME
When all of the evils are back in their box,
and those who can have been paired in marriage –
to an ovation from an audience
of boy scouts, elderly innocents,
and coach parties from Rhyl and Wallasey –
we emerge into Theatr Clwyd’s bar.
We watch, in awe, through the long glass window,
a vestigial sunset above Moel Famau –
variegated layers of coral
beneath a looming indigo bank of cloud.
Below – in the darkening river valley
of ribbons of homes, old mine shafts, quarries,
used car dealerships, and the Alyn’s waters
out of sight over glacial stones –
a billow of smoke, snaking round houses
at the edge of Mold and onto the hillside,
is rising white as steam.
5 responses to “AFTER THE PANTOMIME”
-
Does ‘wow’ count as a comment? From your poems I get a sense of the many-hued moody place that is Great Britain. I love the emergence from man’s theater into the real world’s theater and what it means that we have this box inside us we have to explore.
-
Yes, ‘wow’ counts, Mary! Thank you! As always, your comment reminds me what inspired me to write the piece in the first place.
‘…many-hued, moody place…’ That’s GB. I’m going to use that phrase at some point, if I may.
-
-
Another lovely evocative poem, David. Similarly at the Buxton Opera house (a splendid Victorian theatre) with my son’s bemused Galician girlfriend. No coral light though. Just high-Derbyshire swirling drizzle and a black Cat and Fiddle road….. ‘oh no it wasn’t’… ‘oh yes it was. I was driving and you all fell asleep’. Axe Edge Moor looking particularly forbidding, their faces illuminated by the green dashboard Northern Lights.
-
Love the ominous cloud of smoke, David.
-
A dear place, I guess, lovingly evoked with melodic words:
‘… ribbons of homes, old mine shafts, quarries,
… a billow of smoke, snaking round houses…’
Best things for the coming year!
-
Search by Tag
9/11 A.E. Housman America Anglesey anti-semitism Aristotle Atlantic Atlantic Slave Trade Auschwitz Beaumaris British Cape Town cathedral Celts charity Cheshire Chester childhood Churchill Civil War comrades cormorant death Dee dee estuary Dublin England English Europe Ezra Pound Fossils fox French Gaza gazebo German gibbet God Great War gulls heart Hegel Hitler Iraq Ireland Irish sea irony. Israel Jerusalem Jews landscape Liverpool Liverpool Bay Llandudno London love Manhattan May Menai Straits Mersey miracle Missouri Moscow Napoleon North Wales Ovid paradise Paris Plato pre-pubescent Putin racist river river Dee robin roma Romans Rome Russia skull South Africa Soweto Stalin swifts Syria T.S. Eliot teacher Telford USA Venice Victorian Vienna W.B. Yeats Wales Wellington Welsh Western Front winter Wirral Ynys Mon
Leave a Reply