Questions to Ask the Performer

How do you mold to the stage?  Do you plant your feet or shuffle yourself silly?  Do you see the audience as a large monster ready to devour you?  Do you see the audience as many or one?  How does the spotlight feel on your face?  Do you sweat under it? Or do you shy […]

Womanhood

I think about the women in my life. Women I know intimately and women on the fringes. Single women and women with children. Women in charge of business, in charge of households, in charge of both. Hard-shell women with soft interiors. Women with signature scents. The scorned women I read about in the news. Women […]

Mold

There are multiple points of entry into a memory: sound, sight, taste, touch, smell. I will tell you one thing: I walked in and it smelled like a vitamin shake. There were circles everywhere. We grew them, walked them, ate them, used them as chairs. The imperfect circle is the dominant shape of this memory. […]