Draw the drapes

Excerpt from The Gap - solo performance by Michael Rauter

                                           texts by Daniella Strasfogel

 

A beetle, a bird

A thrumming, a rustle

A crackling, a wobble

A running, a babble

......

The drowning

And the undrowning

Frantic fish preparing for battle

The drowning then the undrowning

 

Shut up the drapes

Draw the door

Close the woods

 

A knobble, a crickle

A stumble, a stopping

A whoosh and a whistle

.......

 

The seeping and sopping

the hooting and shushing

the wide slow rushing

the drowning undrowning