from The Blue
This week in the PEN Poetry Series, PEN America features an excerpt from Fiona Templeton’s play The Blue, which will premiere at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City from May 18-21, 2017.
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Scene 2
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In my house are empty rooms impostors an entrance a body hard as rock with the visible rock as soft as a body that’s why she can’t touch she is occupied she acknowledges him I am a color I am profiled hold my what’s a woman seeing? how can she come all dark beauties come into the light leave me my home here I’m inside myself stay in my sexual being he turns his head himself inside her they don’t know the blue caul of matchlight I sleep inside reverse all to me heads turning blue like a bird she can hear the bird spoke back black seeing you
why say that a lifelike figure outside
a stuck place suits him and out of the room and into my little silver swallow |
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