The Voice of the Bard presents
Sophia, an opera in installments
Composed and performed by Ishmael Wallace
Episode 15
Scene: the consulting room of Sophia’s analyst, Küsnacht, canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Sophia:
I saw Mr. Hawkins. He was my father’s friend.
When my parents disappeared, it was he who knew what to do.
I still send my bills to his secretary.
He was in town last week, so I took him to lunch;
I brought him his favorite cigars.
When I asked him about my father, he said something strange:
“You have lived out of the current, splashing in the shallows.
Should you learn about your father, it would sweep you away.”