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from Painting
By: Stephen Ratcliffe

walking out the door, woman leaving her jacket (black) on the back of the chair by the other door
who phones to say it wasn't a mistake to have left it, sounds of two voices in the hall (proportion)
as a car moves into the oval (asphalt) in front of a building whose stairs may be climbed to the next

arrangement on a table, two bowls divided by a pear-shaped something (blue) moments after an explosion
the man perceives as a beautiful (acoustic) object, color saturated as words on the page the audience
listed under names of the actors at the start of the play, which brings up the experience of what is

said of color, perception of an owl (black) that flies in the night "heard" as the angle of paper's
surfaces, the woman walking in a line of women who gets up to walk the still dark streets, landscape
of bottles whose scale of tones (mute) defines the space filled when one person moves next to another


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