Only You

Only You

No moon,

Never dawn:

Skyless night

Alone with you.

(7/16/2011)

Sorry my blog has been so quiet the past couple of months. I've certainly been busy and this shows with my slower output. Poetry requires a lot of focus, and my focus has been elsewhere. But it's been good. I'm writing music, and enjoying the many loves in my life.

I will try to keep posting at least once per month and sometimes still share an older poem if I don't have a new one I want to post on here.

As for my music, I've been putting finishing touches on my first string quartet which I hope to get performed this fall at WOU. (Any string players out there interested in seeing my score and/or possibly playing on it with me, feel free to contact me!) I have the rondo movement on my youtube here, and am thinking of posting the third and possibly fourth movements on there as soon as I feel like they are "done."

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Feel Again

Feel Again

Isn't it good, finally, to silence all our machinations
and feel again kinship with the trees and grasses
who know only of the treble susurrations of wind as it
pushes and sways their taut bodies,
of throaty-voiced seasonal geese who pass
and punctuate the broad chords of the ground's horizon?

Love is like a hushed morning;
a euphony of silence invites
whispers of a neglected heart.


(4/25/2011)