February 12 Play: ICE FLOE

43: ICE FLOE - by Ed Valentine
© February 12, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com


LIGHTS UP: An ice floe. A woman with flowers. Another with knitting.

KNITTING: This was the place, then?

FLOWERS: This very hole.

KNITTING: Yes, but. But how can you be sure, you know? One hole is very like another. A hole is just a hole. A void. A zed.

FLOWERS: I know.

KNITTING: Still. This was the place, you think.

FLOWERS: I know.

KNITTING: Well, then.
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He’s not coming back, you know.

FLOWERS: You didn’t need to say that.
(throws flowers in the hole)
Let’s go home.

(They don’t move. A long time watching the hole.)

Lights fade.

END OF PLAY.