While You Dart And Float Poem by gershon hepner

WHILE YOU DART AND FLOAT


I love to see you dart and float,
remaining all the time, as far as I can see, well grounded.
I qualified this, though I dote
on you because I'm not-as yet! -sufficiently well-rounded
to see you without reservation,
far too square to make sense of the way that you defy
the gravity of situations,
so I must try evaluating you while not in your sky,
but on the ground where I am stuck.
I fear that I am missing half the points you make to me,
but with a little bit of luck
I'll learn to fly, to check out better what there is to see.

Joe Morgenstern reviews a movie "No Strings Attached, " in the WSJ,1/21/11:

The prospect was iffy at best: a romantic comedy, from a Hollywood studio, with a premise that smacked of 'Last Tango in Paris, ' the scandalous classic in which Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider have a sexual liaison with no strings—or names—attached. Yet the outcome is delightful. Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman are the lovers in 'No Strings Attached, ' which Ivan Reitman directed, with great verve and unflagging finesse, from a terrifically funny script by Elizabeth Meriwether. These lovers do have names: Adam and Emma. They're longtime friends who decide to become FWBs—friends with benefits, i.e. sex friends—because they don't think they can handle the demands of a committed relationship without wrecking their cherished friendship. In fact, it's more complicated than that, and much more interesting, but their earnest entry into a no-strings pact is enough to put them on a bumpy, raunchy—sometimes very raunchy—and pot-holed road to true love….
Both of the actors, like their characters, seem to be enjoying themselves with a graceful sense of self-irony that inoculates them against narcissism. Mr. Kutcher's Adam is an intelligent, good-hearted hunk who's genuinely lovable. Ms. Portman's Emma has a gift for floating and darting while staying grounded.

1/21/11,7/7/12 #10735