the shapes in the blue hallway

blue hallway with golden light streaming through shapes dance on the ground the geometric outlines of truth a patterned wall light filters through see-through paper like gauze it drapes down  a veil between worlds and in this cavernous space no one is seen all is shape and light and colors of all kinds imaginable sometimes…

Smoothness

Smoothness The kind that lends softness to skin The kind that lends grace to movement The kind that brings a cool, confidence to voice The kind that relaxes the beat of music Smoothness keeps the jagged edges from catching Smoothness brings you on a ride Smoothness wraps you up with nothing extra Blending Gliding Flying…

bright orange birds

there are bright orange birds sitting on my window but when they erupt in song i don’t know what it is i keep looking around  saying you see that? you hear that? you hear that? it’s like no one hears them it’s like no one sees them and i’m dying  because i think they’re so…

let me set the record straight

you are not too big you are not too old  you are not too much you are not too little you are not alone you are not helpless you have a voice you are strong you have power you don’t have to get everything right you don’t need to apologize you don’t need to hide…

the seer, part 2

The vision that followed didn’t make any sense.  A certain part of the forest had trees standing as if in a line. It was incredible how lined up they were, actually, as if someone had grown them from seed. In this part of the forest, he saw the girl running. But she was just a…

prayer

the type of prayer that shakes the type of prayer that moves the type of prayer that bubbles  the type of prayer that soothes the type of prayer that speaks words across the boundaries words into the unknown the type of prayer translucent in the light wavering between boundaries unimpacted by time the type of…

the seer

The man had been in the village for quite a while. For him, days felt like years in the village. Our in the forest, years felt like days.  He had seen many things that gave him hope at finding the answers he seeked. There was the old man with book with mysterious origins. There were…

song from the stars

when the stars shine out to night they’ll sing you a song and it will be traquil like two morning doves sitting on the fence it’s just a short moment but if you believe it will last forever

destruction

there are some days  where a deep anger bubbles to the surface and i were a volcano  all you’d see is lava  flowing down destroying everything in its path there are some days  when there is no voice of reason there is only fear directing everything squeezing everything  so that i wish something would pop…

The Real World – Theater Edition: Interview With Alex Spieth

Barbara Jwanouskos starts your Pride with an interview with Alex Spieth! I met Alex Spieth at Carnegie Mellon. She was one of the BFA Actors in her senior year and was in a collaborative class in TV Writing/Acting/Directing. Albeit, the class, at the time, was mainly focused on the classic sit-com three camera format, but…