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One Act
She lives without chandeliers.
Once she searched for these
and balconies
and window boxes
brimming with zinnias.
She thought reality
was a veil you lifted,
where dreams were found
alive and squealing.
She lives half her days
in theaters now,
safe from a careless light
playing tricks with
her cheap makeup
and thrift store dress.
She's safe there,
away from her room
where love visits her
once a week,
expecting no chandeliers.
Vernon Waring's poetry has appeared in The Writer, The Iconoclast, Alabama School of Fine Arts Quarterly,
Midwestern University Quarterly, New Dimensions, and Anthology as well as on the Prairie Home Companion's Web site.
His light verse has been published in the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia Daily News, and WRITE ON!! Poetry Magazette.
His short fiction and poetry have also been featured online in Ascent Aspirations Magazine. He resides in King of Prussia,
Pennsylvania.
Email: Vernon Waring
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