Rivering: The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt

Street opera

Street opera (works, or words & deeds “the funniest story he told was of going to see Hamlet done as a Chinese opera” satay buah mee goreng these populous night stalls already existing web action acts into street play ❧ godstick dragon in an old man’s sight sharpens all night The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt / 1 burnt paws ashen ears hear it is ‘seeing’ see memory smoke ❧ wayang a way in no shadow play but neon, new on the old acts can be told as a story … bios anyone’s robe & drums ❧ 2 / Rivering the solitary hero in his cups jumps up challenged god comes, that audient here the act enacts here in the din of the street eating goes on acting, speaking heedless of all that imitation ❧ satay cups array god’s house fruit heaps this full moon night month of hungry ghosts ‘life’ invites ❧ The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt / 3 offer them food who come to devour the real banknotes, music, fruit we think we consume a fury of action they who pass beyond actor and sufferer both relinquish & remember ❧ night stalls satay, buah mee goreng relics we transform acting into 4 / Rivering ...