Il Teatro Pescatore – Part 2 - Pinball Becomes Carpo

A flying fish with the face of Groucho Marx? Giant clam shells dripping pearls from a pirate's booty? Head of a goldfish swollen a thousand times its natural size? What creatures we are to have such creations spring from our minds, eyes and hands!

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Slug Haiku

Slug in oblong niche
W/D and all mod-cons
No pumpkin this year

Over and Over Again

...We laughed, muttered,
Staggered in circles,
Tried on faces and voices,
All across the wide backyard.

My mom was
In a suburban rest home
Not far away,
Up on the top floor
In a sheltered wing
Called Comfort Cove...

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Valentine Getaway

Il Teatro Pescatore - Part 1 - Christopher Columbus

Ten years ago I performed at an international puppetry festival. These were puppets for adults. The show was my liberal adaptation of a surreal political satire written in 1929 by Michel DeGhelderode, a Belgian.  “Christopher Columbus,” it was called.


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