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And So
by Joel Brouwer
ISBN: 978-1-884800-91-7 |
THE REHEARSAL At left a yellow flat of sunlight leans against a raw brick wall. Two cats—one white, one black—slump along the vast windowsill as if drugged. Their little fangs glisten. A suggestion of steeple beyond the window, coupled with a recording of children shouting in the imaginary square below, conjures an older quarter. Red sofa stage right. Coffee table strewn with breakfast’s remnants. Dish of bloody ber r ies, greasy pages torn from a pastry, a coffee cup set down absently, tilted on its saucer. And on the sofa she’s reading newspapers. The world is dramatic but not tragic. A stagehand lifts the hem of her dress, shakes it softly, lets it fall, and exits. Music squeaks weakly from an old radio. A vase of tulips sighs on a shelf . All is in its best place under its best dust, and in the wings his line stalls in his throat. |
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