To ritualize the moment . . . possibly code it
for a performance piece that includes excerpts
from poems by Anne Carson
the Canadian poet who teaches
Ancient Greek for a living . . .
Silence is important . . .
In her translation of Antigone, Carson
took inspiration from Cage's 4' 33"
who said he built it gradually
out of many small pieces of silence . . .
An insinuation backburners
the whole thing . . .
When you return to it months later
you begin to obsess over line breaks . . .
An old friend calls
and you meet for drinks
at a small neighborhood bistro
filled with actors who have just finished
a dress rehearsal . . . Can you imagine? . . .
A dress rehearsal? . . .
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| Lilian Oben in Anne Carson's Antigonick |