FIRE IN THE BLACK BOX

MARIANNE BORUCH

Halfway through the semester when asked how it was going, I liked to say “My Archangel got Covid” because it was funny, because it was tragic, because the whole idea had wings and mystery regardless. And the fact was, my Archangel was smart and tough. Really our archangel, no, the archangel: that qualifier kept morphing. In fact she—that particular archangel—did get Covid. And the battle of lyric vs. narrative kept on. Poetry vs. Theater. Inside vs. Out There. The individual and the great world. And why oh why this dilemma in the first place? And why that Black Box Theater, closer to a shroud or a crypt? Everything is time on the wheel, whatever. Hold on. Because I wrote it down— ACT I: THE GOING February 2022—Colby College, Waterville, Maine —It’s the end…

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