Things I know to be true (2016)

Eating a burrito in the Festival Theatre foyer    hair in a half-up half-down

Watching umbrellas & people blow through the door     looking for E and her mother 

Are they wearing furs? Where are they? E loves the theatre    doesn’t come late 

Two girls walk past in Year 12 jumpers & I never went to my five-year reunion

Hung up these portraits on the wall have no names on them       are we supposed to care?

The play is Things I Know to be True & someone has a ticket for me    I assume

To say thank-you I order three glasses of Sauvignon Blanc    but forget to get one for myself

From the balcony   I oversee a roomful of chairs inflate into a room full of eyes 

Gin says that she just finished The Beginning of Spring     translated from the Russian

Viv says the stage lighting is supposed to be fantastic & I want to agree    but hesitate

T never had any formal training as an actress    but her father is the lighting designer 

P points out that her last name is hyphenated in the program     nonetheless

I cry in T’s monologue & E passes me her glasses    because she knows 

I struggle in low-light    looking far away into the distance