String Quartet Excerpts

Here is a new excerpt from the last two movements of my string quartet I've been finishing up this summer.

I recently got the chance to play through the final movement with some friends, and will be working on getting the full piece performed at WOU this fall.

Love's Swift Wheels

Love's Swift Wheels

Love's swift wheels rush you

safely to my arms tonight;

The darkened, cool roads smooth

your approach for my kisses.

Flee the tasks that kept you:

no more delay for us.

Your touch is all I seek to keep,

your body at my side.

Tender talk can wait for morning,

just give me warm embraces soon, for

There's no better use of wheels or words

Than to speed true loves to their loves.

(8/27/11 & 8/29/11)

Haiku: Phone Me

Haiku

Business must be good:

Another phone book is here.

Call me; show you care.

(8/18/2011)

Turning Over

Turning Over

How many hopes, wishes, loves

Have ended at the strike of a

Bullet or a bomb? Shall we

Turn over the whole surface of

The Earth for the graves

Yet to be claimed? Shall we

Bury our own lost selves now

In the debris of not caring,

Not understanding, not—?

A new way must be found.

Hopes and wishes cannot keep

Under the ground. Love cannot,

Must not look back.

(7/5/2011)