We Never Called It Theatre

Live theater
actual faces with people's eyes
looking at us from the stage
various voices
old Ephraim in Desire Under the Elms

Sister and I had our favorites
in plays and playwrights
That funny wicked Noel Coward
with Hay Fever
the woman who played Sorel Bliss
was bliss itself

‘We wished our brothers H and K
could have been with us
at Shenandoah
but they were farther away
than just across the wide Missouri

Notes

McDaniel, Wilma. (2001) Borrowed Coats. Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York.
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