favorite song

favorite song comes on  static electricity  and the people that know say yes hands outstretched to the sky lights turn to blue flash to magenta now’s the time for your best dance moves or sometimes you just sit back and smile arms laced in back of your head close your eyes nod to the beat…

the twelve paintings

The day after the rain stopped, the girl came upon a kind of cave. It was a makeshift shelter built from the natural deepening of the rock. There were twelve paintings or groupings of markings inside.  It was evening and the light from the moon was the only way she could see inside. Tracing her…

water whisperers

i know people who whisper to water who by lake sides and giant pools trickling streams and expansive oceans lean into the water’s edge  and you see them skipping smooth stones you see them walking endlessly  on the shore along the banks where sand and dirt and rock meet water who stop to look out…

Theater Around The Bay: In Every Ending, A Beginning

Barbara Jwanouskos, thinking, remembering. My first teacher in playwriting – really, the first teacher that taught me how to write and parse out creative thought – was Naomi Iizuka. Among many things that have stuck with me over time is how she would describe beginnings and endings. She asked us to take notice and reflect…

a million sacred spaces for every 100 feet

there are a million sacred spaces  in the span of 100 feet and each step you take is setting a foot  on one  they are invisible and each is very precise because there are many different kinds of ways the world in which we live can be sacred some are very small so small that…

fog moves in the hills

the fog  misty sits in the hills low covering the ground and grey cloud so soft transparent put your hand through it but could never hold onto it dark green grasses  reach up when the clouds drift low and sometimes the way the moon shines as the wind moves looks like a silent song where…

space to pause

catch my breath and look out into the void and i forget where i am for a second but it’s the kind of flash  that happens in an instant in a lifetime staring back into nothing blink of an eye  opening to the world in the seat of the unknown in liminal space  and liminal…

the beauty of imperfections

like if a porcelain cup tipped on its side and it had a chip in it it’s a drop of ink that marks the margins of a page an intricately designed rug that has a snag a flower that is short one petal a bike with a slight bend rim a dog that has a…

transmission

dark room with bright pink lights and little blue ones from the bits of mirror spins out like your floating red glow dots drift around the room  fade into ovals stretched along the wall and we all know that the synth bass is so rich sometimes hard to take bright light in the corner  is…

dense night

Sometimes, darkness covered the land and sky with a density so thick, you could almost touch it. There was nothing to be agraid of, but when everything was very still. So quiet, not a word, it was hard not to feel as though something lurked and loomed from the outer edges of the deepness. Staring…