3 Bonsais Fall Victim to Her Wit, Actors' Theatre, Tuesday, 1/19/2010

The Willing Suspen-
sion Armchair Theatre hosts
Claire Braz-Valentine.

Director: Karen
Schamberg; Actors: Phil, Billy,
Wilma, and Karen.

A night of essays,
Letters, poems, monologues,
And personal ad.

A grand reception
For the poet and playwright
Famous from SC,

Where Claire autographs
Copies of SONGS OF MY HEART,
COLLECTED POEMS.

After the party,
When returning chips, bottles,
Plates, and champagne flutes

To Patricia's house
For cleaning, Pat and her son
Drove through the torn streets

To West Side Santa
Cruz, dodging fallen tree limbs and
Severed power lines.

They step past the gate,
Tread six inch deep puddles and
Notice upturned pots?

3 bonsais hurdled,
Cracked, as if burst from laughter.
Victims of the wind!

Victim to Claire's words,
ALL 80 MINUTES! Humor,
Sweat,  memoirs ritten.

Phrases flash on my
eyelids, tattooing pictures
Gently in my heart,

Forever graphed with
Favorite ink. I envy her
In green Paradise!



© Donald Grube, 2010