EDNA AND DOROTHY DUET #1

 

I met an interesting woman at Paris Review reading in June, and after some conversation we agreed to set up some reading-aloud lunchtime-sessions with her doing Edna St. Vincent Millay poems, while I do Dorothy Parker selections.

The First Edna and Dorothy Duet

was scheduled for 1PM today

Madison Square Park

As fate would have it

--we missed each other--

She was waiting at the North West entrance,

while I waited at the South West entrance

from 1PM-1:30, when I decided to circumnavigate

the park in an effort to find her, and she,

thinking I was not there, left the park,

and went back to work!

She had never given me her cell phone, and I have one I only activate when I need it, but when I got home there was a message on my land line.

We are both very disappointed,

but have agreed to meet up next week.