Here it is – the first thing I’ve recorded in its entirety in a few months. I used Evernote, which I use for song sketching, and has terrible sounding audio. It sounds gritty and old-timey, which just might work for a song about a train. Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
So here it is June Midyear came at midnight when no one was watching I’m marking seasons by swapping windows for screens Airing out the bedrooms of children who are starting to sweat Nursing rake blisters in the shade of the tree that killed my lawn I rake debris from past seasons Rake and …
Walking the back alleys along the river valley edge I find I’m always drawn toward the flaking fence paint the muted dusty blue of bygone skies across a garage door while the grey-rot white disappears into the oblivion of time It is only after noticing the pull of decay that I realize …
Missing after a frantic week I cannot find my passport This city won’t be letting go of me after all My brother says he feels betrayed That I would trade my sonic boom parks for his vast wilderness Summer after summer he perches in towers watching for fires in the hinterland Setting his …
No poem today But hope that I can redeem With two tomorrow
“What do we talk about when we talk about love”? Well there’s a good quesion but I may know a better one Why do we talk about love at all? Why do we look in the mirror when we already know what we will see drawn to every magnetic flaw we return to speak …
I want to be the guy who pulls things off that should not work anymore poems that rhyme and stories with endings maybe even happy endings sometimes I want to melt butter in a saucepan Not margarine. Not microwave. I want bow ties that untie and good table manners I want awkward hellos …
If animals were the first metaphor What will be last? How is our trajectory so different from our past? Will there be any wisdom when we’ve rid the earth of owls? Will there be any courage left when lions cease to prowl? When elephants are long forgotten, lost as hillside sheep …
We both know I could do better but only one of us knows how hard I am trying Maybe you could convince me ?
You say that God is love and of course you are right but don’t assume that to mean God is only love as if I were only fear as if I were only doubt as if I were only kind or only cruel I am all of these at once and none of these …