Mutoscope Girl~

See past me – see into me.  I am you and you are me.  We volley with story and each time we elaborate on the scene.  I don’t know the writer and he does not know me, but together we are creating.  Thus far from words a being of a deaf girl has sprung from the snapshots of an old flip card movie machine thereby leaving a glitch in the movement of the moving picture.  She now sits on his table asking for a name.  Within this photo the young lady grows younger.  How will she hear her name or come out of the confines of the card to be a real being breathing and touching–being touched by the life that someone gave to her.  No longer limited to the still stance within the shot nor does she have to wait for the movement of the machine’s crank by a stranger’s hand to flip the shots so that she rises from her sitting position.  What is in a name for this black and white creature who calls aloud–NAME ME!  I wonder if she has risen from her perch to move about freely and if so, has he seen her do so?  I see her clearly and see her perched, but perhaps he sees her other than I do.  After all, she sprung forward to him asking to see the future.  What can he tell her?  In a way we are breathing life into something/someone that wasn’t, but who now is.  She now asks questions. ~ Maggie ~ Penned March 3, 2009 @ 1:20 p.m. EST

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