Her white skin glowed as the movie screened
in my school’s gym. It was National Velvet.
Were her eyes as truly violet as they seemed?
Father of the Bride was Tracy’s film. She beamed
with a maidenhood real life made her forget.
Her radiant skin glowed as the movie screened.
If you look behind the images, no one dreamed
how much pain she was feeling—a true starlet—
Bruce Meyer is author of 34 books of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, literary journalism and pedagogy including the national bestseller The Golden Thread (HarperCollinsFlamingo, 2000). He is a professor of English at Georgian College in Barrie, where he teaches for Laurentian University, and also teaches at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s College. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie.
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