POISON IVY
Winter is ending and so is a phase of writing that involved exploring characters hidden in memory, drawing them out of hiding, understanding lines of conflict and how together they build the story. The mother, the father, their child- the actors whose movements create the whole world. Past, present, future - and the aftermath of events that ran off with your life when you were too young to know or react. Like footprints in flowing water, like stones at the bottom of a pond, truth reshapes memory into something bigger than we knew. If someone stole our memories, we can steal them back. *** My second Big Bang (climax) It was important to me to figure out when my MK programming ended and how and why. I think the answer is in that sequence that began when I got my pink diary in 1963 and recorded my first dream. In the dream I was floating downstream in a bathtub when I landed in the woods and encountered a band of wild, screaming, near-naked Mohawks covered in feather and waving t...