a leapweek
You know the kind
when your heart leaps out of your chest
just because
he says hi or doesn’t
The next week had seven days
normalcy
a perfect routine
the good morning music
some midday surprise
and the pillow talk
randomness
the best week ever!
No one ever said
it existed,
but a five day week came-
the black hole week
where you fall
not in love
but in to darkness
absent your lifeline
your heart skips many beats
bradycardic, spiraling
until it stops
And suddenly,
the week with no days…
you and your lifeline, free at last
you, free of pain
your lifeline, free to love
the time warp
Born in Jellico, TN, Goguen began her writing career before she could even write words. “I always remember being fascinated by dialogue and plots, even before I knew what those terms meant. I used to spend a great deal of my childhood playing with my paper dolls and those homemade ones I tore out of the Sears and Roebuck’s catalog. I didn’t know at the time I was, “writing” when I would create the elaborate plots or their pretend language but as I began school and gained the skills of the written word, I found it easy to transfer my earlier stories on to paper. And that’s how I became a writer.
2016 EKDAS first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
Roots of the Bluegrass semi finalist 2010, for The Dinner Club.
May I Have Your Attention Please?, published by Pioneer Drama in 2003 has been performed all over the US and Canada as well in Great Britain and Ireland. The play won the prestigious Critic’s Choice Award at the Wisconsin State Theatre Festival.
Looking for Mr. Right, published by Brooklyn Publishers
Roots of the Bluegrass 2015 runner up for, Boxes , co-written with J. Michael Radford
2016 Ten Minute Play Winner, Kentucky New Play Series, RE DO IT.
The Most Human published in 2018 by Brooklyn Publishers.
Gorilla Girl, Reading at ArtsPlace, Lexington, KY, 2018
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