There is definitely something
to entering the play a week before
to being ms.henderson
to spending time in the theater
on the stage
breathing
and owning it all.

to see the characters
come to life
to be shadows
of the things I know
of the ways we
tend to be
in the heart and thick
of tension
and dispair.

the way they search
for comfort, like Marish
and Kevin, and Olumandar
and the african girls who
did not want to talk
because they were dressed
to dance and forget.

I loved the way the play
reminded me and
talked to me
about home.