"building a body from the ashes"- -
RobertoValenza's words - - but fear,
stark nude fear puts me off.like cement, fear hold us hard.
but we weave,we weave, dream & dance.
turning & lifting feet,the right,
the left, the right, the left.
surelythe body will follow. the mind,
already moves out ahead.

Marion Kimes / 1998

Marion Kimes

1619 East John Street
Apt 111
Seattle, WA 98112

A Texan, Marion Kimes settled in Seattle in 1981. (Her Nocona boots werebought here!) About the same time Red Sky Poetry Theatre formed, and shemade a home with them also. Listening, learning and letting go, she becamean open mic attache. A featured reader & MC, she gets wild eyes whenshe edits, publishes or produces. Long the 'catcher' for Red Sky, she nolonger sits on the board. Now she concentrates on her work and live readings(an addiction). Her work appears in broadsides, anthologies, magazines &small press books beginning with MACHINES, published by Trudy Mercer. ASTRETCH OF POETS with Tom Hunley and Robin Schultz followed; then, WHIRLED,a performance quartet, from Paul Hunter's Wood Works Press (1996). In 1997CROW'S EYES, of multiplication & light appeared from Nine MusesBooks (Oregon). She's read in Portland and Pt. Townsend, for Raven Chronicles& New City Theatre, at Bumbershoot, The Weathered Wall, and the Crocodileand Speakeasy CafÈs. 1998 began at Elliott Bay Book Store and continuedin April with the Gertrude Steinathon and The Seattle Poetry Festival, bothat Richard Hugo House. Work from "Choosing the Next Stone" wasfeatured recently on Channel 29's "Eye-V Arts Magazine", directedby Peter Sawicki and Carol Edson. Marion's son and daughter hold down onecoast apiece, while her brother dances from Podre Island and Arizona toMaine. (He got all the dancing genes!) Marion's in the phone book or foundat Horizon Books, where her education 'carries on'. Voodoo TortoiseshellKimes, the cat, reigns supreme at home.

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