Fine Balance

Image from Wikimedia Life is a pivotIt’s becomeBetween the joy I left in EnglandAnd the child I’ve found to love in America. Beyond thatI’ve dared to travel too little in my thoughtsExcept when I writeWhen I cross the globe in the cabinet of my mindTo a secret drawer where hidden is my furtive imagination of […]

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43. Rain

Photo by Amirali Beige O Western Wind when wilt thou blowDown that the small rain down can rain?Christ! That my love were in my armsand I in my bed again.             – Anon. Early 16th century TIME AND PLACE 1948 (and half a lifetime later). A small Midwestern town (and a little beyond). CHARACTERS WRITER,

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42. Alchemy’s Daughter

Photo by murat esibatir from Pexels SCENE 1 LYDIA stands in a pillory, center stage, facing the audience – a placard hanging below her head reads: Ugly Conjures The Devil. ANNA is standing beside her. SIR TRIVIUS and JOHNSON enter, walking across the stage (Covent Garden). They stop to look at LYDIA. SIR TRIVIUS makes

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41. Little Flower Girl

Photo from Wikimedia AT THE RISE Center stage: A young flower girl, wearing near-rags and an apron, selling tulips out of a brown wicker basket which she holds on her arm.From early day to nighttime, a change in scenery upstage takes her from: Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to Moscow to Saint Petersburg to

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