Judith Ann Kashuba

Houston, Texas

An only child of an artistic mother, her father was an engineer. Is a poet, provocative, sometimes absurd, writer and director for stage and television who hopes to touch someone who will hear and question our Now World's priorities. A college graduate; University of Miami, Houston, Southern Conn. State, Yale University Drama School. Best known for "Julia" written for "The Prisoner" series on BBC TV, and the plays "Oink Means I Love You", and "One Way Street" an adaptation of Dallon's "The Adding Machine." Residing in Houston, TX she owns and operates 4 PAWS, a pet-sitting service, and is currently writing an opera.

Once You Told Me

Once you told me, "Try to create with words
and sounds and hidden feelings."

You guided my hand on a white, spacious,
immaculate paper....and everything changed
into concrete shapes.

You showed me the way to creativity...and then,
you left me alone.

Alone in a marvelous world of fascinating shadows
yet...unclear in front of my blurred eyes.

Once you told me, "Try to create!"
and I picked up the raindrops-
and the red strands of the sunset-
and the crystalline music that once sounded
like a gentle water stream.

Now...
only one thing was mine,
one- only tear
irredescent
on my palm.

Metastophiles

Everywhere I look
and everywhere I turn
You ride me.

Your spurs dig deep
in your impatience
for my soul.

Be patient, Devil,
patience;
my mind is still whole
and my desire does not rest.

I'll not yet be ashes
for Your Urn!
And this...this to you I tell
without me
go to Hell.