Another Play Has Ended

Another play has ended.

The audience disengage the

Magnetism of the boards –

Catharsis completed,

The cycles of heroes repaired. 

They tread gingerly into aisles

Toward other realities, lumbering

A bit, questioning the return

To the tedium that has sent them into this

                        Realm of the stage of sounds and

Sights, marvels and ether—

Wondering how

To enlighten—

Murmuring

To their equals and to themselves

(unlike groundlings and fickle mobs)

So as not to frighten

The Muse

Whom they wish

To carry away as in a basket

Of rushes—

To flow gently

As a river might—past the populations

Who know no art.

19 February 2012