Closets have a big job: we all keep secrets or store parts of our lives out of view at various times. John and Lynn tackle the intriguing world of the closet in domestic and public spheres. One person’s secret can be another’s treasure. Relational, sexual, socio-economic, cultural closets abound. How does The Closet help us manage our lives?
Teaser: Quotes by George Bernard Shaw, Henry Van Dyke, Jeremiah Brent, and Roald Dahl on closets and secrets.
Song 1: “Ballad of Mollie Bean” written and performed by John V. Modaff, with Dan Modaff on mandolin
Poem 1: “The Last Detail” by Jack Cooper. Published by Bosque Press in ABQ inPrint #5, Fall, 2021. www.bosquepress.com
Fiction: excerpt from “The Surrogate,” a novel-in-progress by Lynn C. Miller. www.lynncmiller.com
Feed the Cat break: acoustic guitar by Chris Geyerman with jvm on piano
Poem 2: “Dear Husband from Afar” by Barbara Rockman. From the collection to cleave, published by UNM Press, 2019. The poet says: “I was literally afar at a three-week artists' residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida; my husband was home in New Mexico.”
Song 2: “Closets Gonna Sing” by JVM, harmonicas courtesy of Dave Merrill
Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
Show theme and Incidental music by John V. Modaff
Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY.
Produced at The Creek Studio, Morehead
NEXT UP: Episode 19, “Faith”