My chapbook "Sea Lions Sing Scat" will be published May 2007 from Finishing Line Press and “Red Rooms and Others” is pending from Pecan Grove Press. Poems are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review and Tundra. Other work has appeared in “Seattle Woman” magazine, Third Coast, The Seattle Review,
The Comstock Review, issue #16 of the Cortland Review and The Gloria
Mundi Press, as well as other publications including a coffee table
book, “Kalakala: Magnificent Vision Recaptured” by Steven Russell. Poems
were set as a choral work by composer Carol Sams and have been performed
by four different choirs in 2000 and 2006.
I collaborated with two Russians in translating Anton Chekhov’s four
major plays, now being offered in a manuscript “The Three Sisters and
Three More, Plays by Anton Chekhov”. We also wrote a dictionary of
Stanislavski terms for theater artists.
I teach the Alexander Technique in Seattle.
Are you an American queries a young woman alone
in a black v neck in Oxford’s, Queens Lane Tea Shop,
established 1642 - Two
tables apart, across empty chairs we trade travel
stories, footnotes about
treks and prior trips, connect like parallel universes
converging accidentally.
During dessert I study the tilt of her head. She writes in a black
leather journal with a fat
gold latch. A footnote of me? I sound like, look like, --my story is--what,
under her pen?
Chewy material for her next encounter? Oh dazzling
eccentric, I cast my gaze away
and reinvent myself, again.
In reality, people read because they want to write. Anyway, reading is a sort of rewriting.
