Sister Hamlet(For Melly)

Oh, I still remember your Hamlet -the best production I ever saw – you home from school wrapping yourself in the crimson curtain of our living room & stabbing yourself in the arras & crying: “ a rat...a rat! ” & how something or other was rotten & bringing the curtain down upon your dying annoying our mother critical of your over-heated performance she sending us (like a bad review) scampering. I will remember your Shakespeare to my dying day! Your eyes wild your hair flying and how with an entire cast of you you acted it out to my open and gasping mouth drinking you in with my thirsty mind Shakespeare come startlingly alive me peppered with beauty & spittle Oh, sister Hamlet I still live in the wonder of your telling.