SARA’S PLAY by Russ Woods
Sara wrote a play. In it, two people are standing in a room and each of them is a beautiful beach. The sun is setting over one of the beaches. The two people look at each other and speak to each other in wave crashes and seagull caws. Their tides move in sympathy with one another.
the first one pulls the second pushes
the second pushes the first pulls
they give each other
salt-wind as gifts.
beach glass beach glass
the room fades away. they actually
are beaches.
beach glass
beach glass
beach glass beach glass
The one with the setting sun whispers something to the one with the sun overhead. It says sometimes we have to let go.
Russ Woods is a divorced poet living in Chicago. He is the author of Wolf Doctors (Artifice, 2013) and his work is published or forthcoming in Diagram, Mudluscious, Barrelhouse, iO, [PANK], and NAP.