naima yael tokunow

2:31A PLAY IN ONE ACT

She makes herself Window, tastes glass, the sheared grease of its fruit at her hinges.

White comes and demands, be oral, all open skin begging. She, Window, says, get out of my house. Get out from under my roof. White has already begun to come, slightly. She ajars.

She became window to get rid of her breast swollen with pummeling. [White pummels the air in protest]. Window fits in a frame, Window panes and has no bosom.

Now soft, White bawls, his pants fouled. White demands that she lady herself again. He screams, FERAL, as if Window’s ajar makes her animal. [Window is still open towards the outside].

As a woman, she never felt close to body. [White rubs his hands palmsticky]. She didn’t have the room to know beyond the demand, fuckable woman.

White is intelligent. Used to getting his way like this. Please. Or with screaming. How do you turn back into something I can push myself into? Window doesn’t answer. I thought that I made you, White whimpers, I thought that you were made for me.

Window is not a long-term solution, is not safe as this glass framed, latched, hinged thing. [White tries to learn window magic, learn carpentry. He reads]. She, Window, opens and opens and opens and opens and

stops. Outside of her house, in the air above her, she sees her body, buzzing. [White doesn’t see past window, his dick out again now]. She ajars. Asks the outside, how does Window stop just hanging? White licks his palms. How does a window take wing?

‘Deer (not a play)’
Anne Carson

SCENE: Sunday. England. Country road.
CAST: deer
Jimi Hendrix
limo driver
[Enter deer from woods on right. Stops, stands still on road]
DEER:
Heart is
wild muscle
Hum
[Limo with JH in back approaches on road. JH on cell phone]
JH:
So. Dad. I’m in England.
LD:
Look we got a deer.
JH:
What?
LD:
There.
JH:
Just standing.
LD:
They do that.
DEER:
Thin to the leap goes exactly what
tired you up what bracken breaking Hum
to keep on Hum
LD:
Young one. Fawn.
JH:
Dad? Far out. A deer. What? I said deer. A deer standing here. White spots on it.
DEER:
Hum
over this Fool stalkers! Try it
My eyes
LD:
There he goes
JH:
Fast motherfucker. Listen, Dad –
LD:
You hit one of those say goodbye to your car.
JH:
I made it in England, Dad … Right … OK … No it rained here … Yes … OK you go
back to your supper … Bye now … OK Dad … bye.
LD:
What’d he say? About you in England.
deer [now gone in woods]:
My eyes can see
310
degrees around every lick you sail with your tickets gurgling Why have you tied all
that to your arms and legs? Drinking black trees clawing
milk
from the mushrooms no I’m not your shy friend
JH:
What he always says, Whale away Jim.
LD:
Got their own angle don’t they, dads.
JH:
Oh don’t they.
LD:

JH:

LD:
What is it about deer.
JH:

LD:
Something.
JH:
They’re clear then they’re gone. As if it didn’t happen type thing.
LD:
Maybe.
JH:
A voice can be like that sometimes. Ever hear J.B. Lenoir?
LD:
I don’t believe so.
JH:
Hear a voice like that. Kind of high. Clear. Sudden. You looking into the man inside.
LD:
You know a lot of musicians?
JH:
No. Well, some.
LD:
John Lennon?
JH:
Vaguely.
LD:
Vaguely [laughs]. Well here we are Heathrow. You seem to have some fans waiting.
JH:
Look like it. Whoah Nelly.
LD:
I’ll drive on to the next gate – they won’t see you.
JH:
No, let me out here this is good. OK man, thanks.
[Exeunt LD in car, JH out of car into crowd]
DEER:
leap exactly Hum
Hum
over this
Try zones
blown lungs
so strangely relaxed
have you
whitecold
as if I were earth so strangely relaxed
Piss down my leg
flag up a whitetail
You stand here there
breaking with hints
My stain goes to you
open like this I dip I
and vanish
[Exit]