Birth of a new song on the second album – it came quickly and out of my usual order – lyrics first. Now for the music. Verse it is what i expected and still i feel rejected he looked me in the eye and cut us down to part time it cuts me in the … [Read more…]
Verse I: There they go again dust settles in, starts to fade like sighing blown away & fallen to the floor A thin disguise you try to hide, you’re walking slowly dying hollow as the day when you were born Verse II: Close your eyes and then take a deep breath in, you’re standing … [Read more…]
It is the first Christmas I literally did nothing. I did not decorate a tree, did not hang lights or a wreath outside. I did not purchase a single Christmas present. I’m wondering if I’m having my own personal protest. When I was young – the month of December all led up to one special … [Read more…]
If You Are in a Shell is a performance art piece for those of us who didn’t fit in to begin with, and had to find our way to an open place. ( To be quickly followed by a listening of Glamorous Girls )
Invisible Guarded, distant, aloof – The Highlander. Tuck Everlasting. Immortal. Angels. Translucent, transparent, gauze, gossimer, shimmery, whisper, questral, fleeting touches then it’s gone. Ghostly, spectral. A chill passing your skin. A walker in the woods out the back bedroom window. – Little girl ghosts, Laura in Glass Menagerie, spring, air, vapor, mirage, hallucination Hidden, secretive, … [Read more…]
It has been at least a week since I have talked to my mother. It is only 4 days before Christmas. I have not sent her Christmas gifts, I forgot her birthday really. I called. Its not that I am not thinking of her if that I do not care. I care intensely. I am … [Read more…]
6 more days to 40. I’m on a countdown, the end of which I’m sure will be anti-climactic. nothing’s really going to happen at the other end of it. I’ll attend on helluva birthday party. That’s all. It’ll be fun – first party we’ve had in our house in years actually. music and all sorts … [Read more…]
walking among the tall snow covered trees – 100 ft tall cedar and doug fir (mouse tail pine cones), western hemlock, moss-covered, snow covered rain forest, roaring river, dogs here and there obeying commands (heel and stay, wait), footprints on the trail, stepping rock to rock to log to rock through the river, getting kala … [Read more…]
please just get me somewhere and land me safei’ve got so very much in here that’s got to come outit’s not about another man a new job a new beginningit’s in here – it’s in me. it’s up to me – no one else can get it for me… this heart is too big – … [Read more…]
The Miller’s DaughterShe wore a red dress when everyone wore black. No one ever liked a women with her own mind, who made decisions for herself and shared her opinions freely. To everyone’s horror, she decided not to get married before she was 21. She knew how to swim and she travelled on boats and … [Read more…]