Friday, July 6, 2012

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.


3 comments:

deanna7trees said...

how disappointing but you captured some pretty flowers and it looks like it's a beautiful day in ny.

Nancy said...

Well I'm glad a new plan is in the works!

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

it has been a difficult week all
around it seems...that off kilter
thing...out of sync and can't
get "in"....
i like that you thought to post
this. it gives reassurance somehow. the i am not alone thing.
love,