The Minor Characters As They Appear, Amy Beeder

Hermes Army: a collection of perfume bottles that act

as chorus from the upstairs bathroom window. Aunt Magda

prays nightly over birth cords & baby teeth in a jam jar

  [the talking snuffbox lately stricken from the script]

La Virgen de Ló: through the magnifying glass perpetually

emerges from a pinto bean, unless it’s a trick or trompe l’oeil

  [the prop–master as usual requests you do not touch]

First Girl: stillborn but reincarnated as a shaft of sunlight

—which is a trick but still lucent as anything mote–lit

  [mind the passage when she enters/exits]

&

Members of the Crowd who gather at parades or the daily

train’s arrival, milling & muttering peas & carrots;

Mr. Ether who bought his trailer for its painted–on shutters

  [please remember there’s no liquor in the sound booth]

Juan Aldo who coaxes music from ruminant skulls