Nicole Bassil First Draft

[0:00] Piano music plays. The word “mirror” is typed on screen behind ink dissipating. 

[0:09] The words “Sylvia Plath” replace “mirror.”

[0:19] Clip of a blank mirror on a black background being smashed by a hammer; text appears on screen:

i am silver and exact

[0:31] A clip of a lion roaring fades in; text appears on screen:

Whatever I see I swallow immediately

[0:36] A clip of clouds rushing past plays; text appears on screen:

just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.

[0:48] Closeup of a human eye; text appears on screen: 

I am not cruel, only truthful, The eye of a little god, four-cornered.

[1:09] Clip of a dark room; text appears on screen:

Most of the time

[1:13] Clip of a sunrise; text appears on screen: 

I meditate

[1:16] Back to the clip of the room; text appears on screen: 

on the opposite wall.

[1:22] Clip of a painter painting; text appears on screen:

It is pink, with speckles.

[1:27] A person’s face fades in; text appears on screen:

I have looked at it so long

[1:32] A collage of video clips plays, including a poker table and a person’s face; text appears on screen:

I think it is part of my heart, But it flickers.

[1:42] Clip of a lighter’s flame; text appears on screen:

faces and darkness separate over and over.

[2:00] Clip of a water droplet in a bigger body of water; text appears on screen:

now I am a lake.

[2:05] Picture of a woman’s face fades in; text appears on screen:

A woman bends over me, searching my reaches for what she really is

[2:15] Silhouette of a peacock; text appears on screen:

Then she turns to those liars,

[2:18] Clip of ink dissipating fades in again; text appears on screen:

the candles, or the moon.

[2:29] Clip of a woman walking into the ocean in a swimsuit; text appears on screen:

I see her back and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears.

[2:39] Clip of a man fanning out playing cards; text appears on screen:

And an agitation of hands.

[2:44] Clip of a man throwing a ball by the ocean; text appears on screen:

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

[2:51] Clip of a woman flipping her hair from behind; text appears on screen:

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl,

[2:59] Clip of dissipating ink reappears; black text appears on screen:

and in me an old woman

[3:09] Clip of people stretching in bathing suits; text appears on screen:

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

[3:28] Reversed clip of a hammer smashing a mirror.