Stella scribbled
in thick black texta
across half the pages
of my best storybook,
filled with people who ventured
where their hearts took them.
Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie. Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.

There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.

Her heart is of a much harder material... A diamond. Beautiful, but deadly…

And amid people with hearts of diamonds, it is best to remember that no one is exempt from their malevolence. Not even themselves.

Then she smiles, like it's
the first time she's seen sun
after a decade of winters.

Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain.