Poem: “It Is the Story of the Sun and Moon” 2013
Jan 11, 2021
It is the story of the sun and the moon.
By day, it takes place in a solarium —
The players all wear masks and veils.
By night, it moves along the path of the lunarium.
The stage trembles at their travails.
The audience is torn every which way
(The playwrite has a sick sense of humor and uses more dramatic irony than Marlowe did in Tamburlaine)
Yet after every act, they rage and lust, laugh and cry,
Throwing Ophelia’s flowers in madness at the stage
As the chorus wails the dithyrambs of Hermes.
And that my friends is the bedtime story.
