New music+poetry: gray skies still, I do not long for blue: only you.
evening, lake sagamore
New music+poetry: a bright darkness has cascaded across Lake Sagamore this summer night the glad starlight dimpled in warm waves has whitewashed our wandering boat a toast in every direction black trees raising windswept leaves and beneath the cabin eaves strands of hazy light birthing fireflies who hover woodstacks resting on my back dipping with... Continue Reading →
love-struck fireflies
love-struck firefliesthey are born to summer breezegone with autumn leaves
The Voice of the Rain
Some new music! The Voice of the Rain has been a favorite poem of mine for a long time, and it comes to mind of course every time it starts to rain, whether gentle drizzle or late night thunderstorm. I especially love the line, "I am the poem of the earth." It's interesting that rain,... Continue Reading →
Nothing More I Ask
For my lovely wife...
Joy and Woe
This is a new nocturne* I've written for solo piano, paired with an excerpt from William Blake's poem Auguries of Innocence. The way he writes about joy and woe being intertwined really captures for me the bittersweet-ness of life, something I try and explore in much of my music. You can read the entire poem... Continue Reading →
Line & Landscape 