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PLAY: 8 Pomegranate Seeds 8 Pomegranate Seeds

CHARACTERS:
PERSEPHONE
DEMETER
APHRODITE
ZEUS and EROS (Can be played by the same actor)
HADES and BOREAS (Can be played by the same actor)

TIME:
Now

SETTING:
The stage could hold each set.  PERSEPHONE’s bedroom and DEMETER’s bedroom are stage right.  HADES’ bedchamber is stage left.  Center stage is DEMETER’s living room.  HEPHAESTUS’ forge is upstage center, but it should pretty much appear for that particular scene.  It should all be suggested.

SCENE 1
SETTING: PERSEPHONE's bedroom

There is an open suitcase on the bed.  PERSEPHONE sits, in a slip, at a vanity, brushing her hair, pow
POEM: Thwarted - Could Have SERIES: I Will Write Every Thwarted Love Out
POEM: What It Could've Been

It could have been a dark night, planned with lies
twined around the details to aid our devious escape
(all we wanted was a little time alone, after all),
ending in a secret we could carry through the halls.

It could have been lit with afternoon sunlight around
the edges of the doors and windows, pushed out
by curtains, locked doors, a house quiet save for us,
our whispered intimacies, our clumsy touches, our love.

It could have been a rebellious day of skipping school,
a rented hotel room, our favorite music, a well-designed
fortress around us, protecting us
POEM: Thwarted - Can't Let Go SERIES: I Will Write Every Thwarted Love Out
POEM: I Can't Let Anyone Go

I can't let anyone go.  I twinge at the sight of him holding her,
although I am being held myself, in my own photos and every night,
but I never knew if leaving was the right thing to do, years ago.

I can't let anyone go.  I twinge at the thought of the light-eyed
Italian from Meriden who only came in the dark and would have
hurt me anyway.  I can't play the game because I always fall in love.

I can't let anyone go.  I twinge at the flash of red hair or a black
Nissan Altima, think that he should see the play I wrote about us;
it started as a love letter, but t

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My Dreams Series of poems was recently turned into 5 photomanipulations.

This is #1, Part 3 (formerly #2).

Manipulated in Photoshop 7


Credits
Original photography and poetry
Models: Matt and Janeen
Stock from =Eris-stock


(c) 2007 understar productions and Rosana Garcia
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