#jan 14

Grace Kelly as Bertha, the captain’s daughter, in August Strindberg’s The Father, starring Raymond Massey, who also directed. The production ran from November 16, 1949 to January 14, 1950 at the Cort (now the James Earl Jones) Theater.

"The choruses are an invention: of a character, not me, but somebody who, seeing the same things, calls a person to mind whose memory is, evidently, hard to carry."

your language, lost to me,

left me enfeeble, in rags,

like the creaks of a new home,

every step feels wrong. but

bridle-wise in disguise,

i know truth in my bones.

i know my mouth is on the

ground now, scrimmaging 

for a kiss that wakes me up.

but you and i, our breaths, 

my words undulating.

the air is how we touch.

i say, i've seen you.

i say, can't they hear