Act 1 Scene 2: For Absent Friends
A Work in Progress
81
The stage set is with a kitchen table laid as if a meal has been finished. There are eight chairs around the table.
wine glasses
remain
amongst
other objects
bereft
of
hands
leave takings
fond farewells
more urgent now to return
to that table
those chairs
those
bottles
of
myth
each return
is another life
our myth is enriched
that table those chairs
these glasses
the touching of hands
lips
yet
that place
does not detain us
our eyes
carry it weightlessly
recreate it
in another time
another place*
they passed on before us traveling into the dark
leaving a trail for us to follow
beacons
works of art that interconnect
a bone full of marrow
for minds to gnaw on
so humanity can pass on
Dick Russell (C) Richard M Russell
*first published in Lines Review
Scotland, 1977
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