Catchlight
“When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brains, trying to get answers. The primal questions of any marriage. What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?” —Ben Affleck, Gone Girl
As I stroked gently the head of the sun-spun hair draped
softly across my chest, I couldn’t help but find myself
thinking, for what must have been the hundredth time,
what are you thinking, how are you feeling?
What have we done to each other?
Yet, as if on cue, as if reading my thoughts,
your head snapped up and your eyes met mine.
You looked at me half-lidded and while my first
two questions remained unanswered, I realized it
was merely a catchlight I saw in your eyes, and
what we had done to each other was snuff out the
starlight that had once dwelled there.
About this poem
Found poem from the opening lines of the movie, Gone Girl.
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Written on 2020
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 853 |
Words | 164 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
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