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“Jane Eyre” and “The Elgin Theater”
William Baer
Jane Eyre
- “I’d like you to meet my books,” you said
- on our very first date, on the first of June,
- when you introduced me to all the books you’d read,
- who must have approved of me that afternoon.
- When I arrived, you were reading Jane that day;
- the part, you told me later, where Jane, who knew
- the passionate truth within her heart, would say
- to the one she loved, “I have as much soul as you.”
- And even now, three years after you’ve died,
- as I sit in your library, you still surprise me.
- I open your book and read the annotation inside,
- within Jane Eyre, chapter twenty-three,
- where you wrote in the margin that late afternoon:
- “I wish that he would get here soon!”
The Elgin Theater
- 8th Avenue, Chelsea
- It begins one poorly-attended rainy night
- at an Elgin double-header showing:
- the classic British Shavian black-and-white,
- Pygmalion, and Hiller’s I Know Where I’m Going!
- At intermission, she come in through the door;
- you’re buying popcorn, completely unaware,
- yet sensing something you know you can’t ignore.
- You turn around and see her standing there,
- in a dripping trenchcoat, wiping the rain away,
- with wind-tossed hair and eyes of Wendy blue,
- so lovely that you can’t help but say,
- “You look like Wendy Hiller,” which is dumb, but true,
- who smiles, saying, as if already knowing,
- “Well, I wish I knew where I was going.”
William Baer, a recent Guggenheim fellow, is the author of 18 books, including 5 collections of poetry, most recently Bocage and Other Sonnets (recipient of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize). His other books include The Ballad Rode into Town; and The Unfortunates (recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award). A former Fulbright (Portugal) and the recipient of a N.E.A. Creative Writing Fellowship, his next book, Love Sonnets, is forthcoming from Kelsay Press.
Here's something you might be interested in.
“Jane Eyre” and “The Elgin Theater”
“Jane Eyre” and “The Elgin Theater”
William Baer
Jane Eyre
- “I’d like you to meet my books,” you said
- on our very first date, on the first of June,
- when you introduced me to all the books you’d read,
- who must have approved of me that afternoon.
- When I arrived, you were reading Jane that day;
- the part, you told me later, where Jane, who knew
- the passionate truth within her heart, would say
- to the one she loved, “I have as much soul as you.”
- And even now, three years after you’ve died,
- as I sit in your library, you still surprise me.
- I open your book and read the annotation inside,
- within Jane Eyre, chapter twenty-three,
- where you wrote in the margin that late afternoon:
- “I wish that he would get here soon!”
The Elgin Theater
- 8th Avenue, Chelsea
- It begins one poorly-attended rainy night
- at an Elgin double-header showing:
- the classic British Shavian black-and-white,
- Pygmalion, and Hiller’s I Know Where I’m Going!
- At intermission, she come in through the door;
- you’re buying popcorn, completely unaware,
- yet sensing something you know you can’t ignore.
- You turn around and see her standing there,
- in a dripping trenchcoat, wiping the rain away,
- with wind-tossed hair and eyes of Wendy blue,
- so lovely that you can’t help but say,
- “You look like Wendy Hiller,” which is dumb, but true,
- who smiles, saying, as if already knowing,
- “Well, I wish I knew where I was going.”
William Baer, a recent Guggenheim fellow, is the author of 18 books, including 5 collections of poetry, most recently Bocage and Other Sonnets (recipient of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize). His other books include The Ballad Rode into Town; and The Unfortunates (recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award). A former Fulbright (Portugal) and the recipient of a N.E.A. Creative Writing Fellowship, his next book, Love Sonnets, is forthcoming from Kelsay Press.
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