Best Entrances Poems

Doors and Entrances
by Odin Roark

How telling
One's 3-Act duration
Entrances never made
Hesitations made permanent
Some by regret
Others by wise caution heeded

As children
We challenged drama's closed doors
Many the time
Parental forbiddance
Deterred admissions
Touching the knob only
Never pulling
Never pushing

Today
We carry decorative memories
The shiny brass
Cold porcelain
Grating filigree of levers never turned
Fear standing often...

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...inspired by the performance piece 
   'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits


A green glow dribbles 'neath his door,
and clamours of construction mutter,
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice
belies a whole man, straining with a stutter.

He comes and goes in dead of night,
I...

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