Hommageà Bergman
on Sheila Ash (India), 26/Sep/2015 06:43, 34 days ago
This weeks homework for our Creative Writing Group was to write 300 words beginning“Yesterday Ingrid came back into my life”. Here is what I wrote. Ingrid came back into my life yesterdayas she frequently does.Entering stage righthers is theintermezzothat holds it all together.I’mspellbound…..the famous lines, that look,belying innocence,oozing sexuality.A face that always looked good in hats.She’d be 100 now and still gets me every time“Play it for me” misquoted yes,but yes, oh yes I’d play it for her, for her ….tender curls rolling down her flawlesscheeks,caressing her angular face,outlining her cupid lips.No size zerobut the perfect frame for 40s fashions.Decked out in virginal white more often than notPurity embodied as in herJoan of Arc.The onscreen porcelain doll illusionbroken well and truefor Rossellini’s love .To leave her man, her child“an influence for evil” said senatorsbut still we watch, as they do now I’m surebedazzled, enthralled,hooked line and….sink into her deep brown eyesher eyebrows, full, unplucked -rampant by today’s trends -they made her Meir more authentic.I imagine it’s mein Humphrey Bogart’s arms,with Gregory Peck, with Yul Brunner.Torn between Rick and Lazlo;saved by Robert Jordan.personas dramaticusher life, my life, separated by the flimsiest of veilsYes Ingrid came back into my life yesterdayas she frequently does.Words 234© Sheila Ash 26thSeptember 2015ashramblings