Verse
Theater Performance
In the book: Trilogy; "I arrive in 1, two, 3"
Theater performance
If he stands up, he can't reach.
If he goes up on tiptoe, it isn't enough.
Calm.
His voice still feels close.
His footprints are raised in relief.
Behind
Beneath
Inside.
It isn't concealment.
It's privacy.
That's how life happens.
With flavors
Perfumes
Falls
And many new shoots too.
They aren't always in plain sight.
The spectators on the other side
concentrate the staging
of whoever raises the curtain.
His performance,
like it or not... tints the air.
Suspense.
Sensations.
Subjectivity.
The performance doesn't end
sometimes the applause germinates.
A new going out into the world
expectant...
approval or condemnation.