Bringing poetry to the stage and integrating language with movement is for me an exquisite pleasure. I enjoy performing solo as well as collaborating with musicians, dancers, and other artists. I was deeply grateful for the opportunity in Seattle to create a one-woman show for Freehold Theater as well as the invitation to join Water Sines at St. Mark’s Cathedral and Antonio Delgado’s Illuminatio at Velocity Theater. Audio and video recordings can be found to the left. 

 

Shattering from the clouds, I break into pieces,

 I rain so I may touch

every last leaf and sow the earth

with infinite equity. I soak

into every patch of ground without

distinguishing,

fall on the homeless by the exit ramp

and his shabby sign,

on the turreted house ablaze with light,

on the hospitals holding doctors with healing hands

and elsewhere, the ones who need them

dying… 

I fall on the workers tumbling from the flaming oil rigs

and on the blackened birds who can no longer extract

their slick wings

from my waters. 

I wash them ashore

so they may be cleansed

 

or laid to rest.

 

                                      from Water Sines 2011