I remember the rain And how we wished for cloudy days Something somber, something heavy To hold us in our place I remember the day We started…… Read more “Songwriting: Sarah (Ode to a Friendship Lost)”
2003 Manuscript: Light Speck In The Sky
The shadows are cast on the room, not like stone more like a breath, the breath of time. It is 3:30 in the afternoon. As the bliss…… Read more “2003 Manuscript: Light Speck In The Sky”
2003 Manuscript: Letter to My Mother
Vivid rhythms being tapped out on the dance floor with feet so worn friends associate them the tree roots you with your red hair leaping from your…… Read more “2003 Manuscript: Letter to My Mother”
2003 Manuscript: Letter to My Father
Why is my childhood such a blur? Why can’t I remember anything? It wasn’t until tonight, only after I read a journal you’d kept for me as…… Read more “2003 Manuscript: Letter to My Father”
2003 Manuscript: Revolving
… and in that I had achieved freedom. The last breath of August felt hot but was tempered by a cool autumn-like breeze and smelled of the…… Read more “2003 Manuscript: Revolving”
2003 Manuscript: Cold Night in Boston
It was like looking though a glass of water. The lights were dim on the audience. Their faces were characterless and frightening in her warped view. Some…… Read more “2003 Manuscript: Cold Night in Boston”
2003 Manuscript: Grapefruit Moon
1 All I wanted to do was dance with you on a night with an orange moon hanging in the middle of it. I wanted to feel…… Read more “2003 Manuscript: Grapefruit Moon”
Songwriting: Conversations With Nothing
Shhh Solitude night whispers poetry The sea is ever calm I ask myself “when will I understand… Is there nothing I can know …And night says, “Ah,…… Read more “Songwriting: Conversations With Nothing”
Songwriting: Dad’s Song Revised
In the subtleties of your tone you taught Expounding in visions you sang with your eyes And I could not help but form I was the child…… Read more “Songwriting: Dad’s Song Revised “
Songwriting: Hard To Hope
In fate I may have no belief but it is decidedly so That chance would be contradictory to everything I think I know What do you do…… Read more “Songwriting: Hard To Hope”
Songwriting: Here I Am
Everybody’s sang a song like this Kneeling on the ground with their hands in fists Yelling at the vacant twilight sky Everybody’s stood in the rain before …… Read more “Songwriting: Here I Am”