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Carmen-maria

this is how this all began this summer...

About Me

short hispanic cat and dog lover. Part time street performer. Part time artistic director. Writer, painter, reader. I also like to fish.

My Interests

Holding hands. Or not. Shakespeare. Rain. Wide open space. Light. Neruda. Nickel Shakespeare Girls. Traveling. Renaissance Faires. Making friends and staying in touch with them. Fireworks. Walking Night Blind. Discontent. Kissing! gentility, Working, Tatoos, Piercings, Playing in the dirt. Baseball (1st base). Acrobatics. The Berkshires. Climbing Monument Mountain. being alone. Listening to bands. Meteors. Full body Hugs. Camping. Morning light. Big cities (that scare me). Little cities. Mountains. Big bodies of water. Working with crazy kids to create stuff.Dogs. Cats. Brown eyed boys. Sor Juana. Talking about poop. Eating Fire. Cello. Writing. Chaplin. Keaton. The woods.

I'd like to meet:

Funny people. Nice people. Kids who make fart noises. Grown ups who make fart noises. Acrobats. Clowns. Shakespeare lovers. Ovid lovers. A mate for my cat benny. Who ever wrote this poem..Rachel Field (1894-1942)(for Richard -- one day old)Now lighted windows climb the dark, The streets are dim with snow, Like tireless beetles, amber-eyed The creeping taxis go. Cars roar through caverns made of steel, Shrill sounds the siren horn, And people dance and die and wed -- And boys like you are born.

Music:

Lotsa. All the time. Except when it's quiet. I like that too.

Movies:

Absolutely. Hook me up with a dark cinema. Just get me to the movies.

Television:

Blarg. Don't own one. Don't want to.

Books:

Currently reading: Supernatural Soliciting. The four agreements. The private Lives of Roman Emperors. Old Journals.

Heroes:

Buster Keaton.Shakespeare.Mom.

My Blog

thoughts after weekend one

I'm glad my leg isn't broken anymore.I hope Anna feels better.It's good to be pushed.Sunscreen sunscreen sunscreen.I want our own bathroom.35 doesn't really matter as much as I think it does.I need to...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:05:00 PST

ghosts Ive never met.

now it's past story timeand now I'll sing unto those bones that cannot be photographed for fearone will see her wrinklesgrandma was a blues singerdebaucherous, entwined, peopled too early.She had a k...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:29:00 PST

the burrow.

a new spinning fan and little feet again.Just shy of a year and my status changes.If I could sell freckles on e-bay I'd be a millionaire.That road trip showed me so much. And made it all so vague.Peop...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:51:00 PST

and a thunder clap

twenty shards of lightning and I am humbled again.Gloria and glorianna and twelve gods of no name hush me to pages.I am not what I am.Where will I be?A year, two years from now.perhaps on a bermuda be...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:51:00 PST

blood red sunsets

blood red sunsets and waning cloudshands held for take off and landingthe floor of Boston LoganThe graffitti at the swizzlethe turtles saying hello with fat green flapsthe square alive with countries ...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:53:00 PST

waiting for the garb to dry.

Tomorrow I leave the country for the first time in my almost 35 years. Last weekend I saw a friend I haven't seen in seventeen. I have no idea what to do with all of this except be grateful and figure...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:59:00 PST

ug.

I cannot even begin to articulate how much I lament the end of Romeo and Juliet.
Posted by Carmen-maria on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:19:00 PST

If

you get rid of your tv and your dvd player and you're living together does that mean you're really commited?oh gosh.
Posted by Carmen-maria on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:18:00 PST

RomeoJulietAsk him in the morningNSG EDand love

I have met some extraordinary people. They come to rehearsal each night from one thing or another. Laughing with full bellies or wailing soaked with tears or just unsure and wandering or full of one l...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:26:00 PST

break.

sometimes the nights here are much too dark.the trees vein the early sunset and prematurely fade to an impersonal black.Sometimes it's the creak of the floor that comforts me.His step in the kitchen.S...
Posted by Carmen-maria on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:36:00 PST