Showman/Shaman 2008 – 2010

Hey I am beginning the long and arduous process of dropping in Showman/Shaman posts from my old iWeb version of this blog covering 2008 – 2010, when I switched to WordPress. I neglected… Read More →

What Happens When You’re Twelve

Recently, the radio program This American Life aired a program on middle school – that extraordinary time of life between around 9 and around 14 years old. I tuned in because a) I… Read More →

8cerpt: The Deception of Surfaces

This is from the end of chapter 14. The action is happening in four places simultaneously. *** A man Andy didn’t recognize got up from his chair and went slowly to the sink… Read More →

Two Poems

Lilian, Jean and Jesus Why did you let her jump? Wasn’t she a wanderer too? Like you alone so long not on hot roads but in bedrooms stark with emptiness kitchens like lonely… Read More →

Excerp7: The Deception of Surfaces

This chapter is called “The Dreams”. It takes place when all but one character are asleep. It is to be rendered as a graphic novel, with each “panel” describing a new image in… Read More →

6x6c6e6r6t6: Deception of Surfaces

The beginning of chapter 12. *** Round Midnight The rooms of the second floor of The Retreat opened on to the balcony that enclosed the Assembly Room on three sides. Above the lobby… Read More →

Kenyapost 9

Kenya: a poem of gratitude. Suddenly I am on the womb-earth dressed inappropriately decked out in my distractions encumbered by clutter like an organ overgrown with cancer like a walking virus   Then… Read More →

Kenyapost 8

The following was written en route from Nairobi and London, 36,000 feet above the Sahara Desert, when I had some time on my hands. 15 hours later, as I moved through passport security… Read More →