Stage Play

Imagine a backdrop 

hastily painted on cheap canvas:  

nettles, foxglove, monkshood,

and other beautiful things

that sting and poison

clamber up the cloth.

Imagine tonight when

you cut a piece of the fabric 

and sew in into a frock.

Would you then have 

something safe to wear 

next time you leave the house?

 

[LSS, 10/22/20]