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In the second scene of Act 1 we meet Leonardo and his family. He has married the Bride’s cousin (who is simply called Leonardo’s Wife or just Wife by Federico; who gives everyone titles, not names in this play). The two of them live in a run-down hut […]
“the bride” by ZJC
Around January of this year I began to work on translating Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem-play, Bodas de sangre or better known in the English speaking world as Blood Wedding. I think I got through maybe two scenes in the first act and then, like a lot of my projects (short attention […]
In sad news, Tamara “Tammy” Faye Messner, passed away on Friday (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) after a battle with colon cancer. For those of you who did not grow up in the 1980s following the much publicized scandals involving the Moral Majority and their televangelists (stealing millions of dollars from […]
Here is a forest and you should linger.
The sun is bright and I am a forest,
river, a creature of August. Offer
me green sap, gold leaf, say the word, “August.”
I give you myself freely. The queerest
things happen in forests. Do you
know that? I am the blue August witch; lust,
tempests, transit. In […]
This is a drawing of the sorceress, Circe, painted by my friend Shelley. I love it! She actually looks like she might come from Italy or Greece, which is more than I can say for other Circe portraits. I am thinking of John Waterhouse’s exquisitely done painting, Circe Invidiosa. In it we […]