George and I have been working together now for 6 years. This latest collabo has been strung out because he just finished his dissertation and I haven’t felt like writing. The concept is “loss of innocence” and it was commissioned by a couple who sing and play sax or something like that.

My charge was to deal with the topic in any way I saw fit and I began to fixate on all the possibilities. I imagined myself, or my imagined self, or people whom I knew and it mostly seemed to be potentially sexual in nature and not totally what the project seemed to have in mind. And then George introduced me to Barbara Newhall Follett (Check her out!) and I was able to merge her story with my obsession with Margot Tennenbaum and and the youthful figure of my sister. The result is a little poemy number I am calling “Home Row”.

Up next is more text to fill in the gaps, or the backgrounds, and I have determined to form it as a narrative one of those figures may have written. Keep coming back for more updates.