What Got You Here

It was the backstage flirting that led to this point,

trying to angle a weekend date

with the brown-haired minor character;

the rules of which dictated

a playful aside to Wild Bill

A flirt that led to a Friday night

that led to a week and a month

and a summer and housekeys

that led to a December night

twenty years later

watching your curtain.*

Ariel

April 1, 2011

*  "Annie, Get Your Gun", Chemeketa Theater Spring 1991