Music from the Deepest Green

A work-in-progress. The soundtrack to my novel The Deepest Green. Will be released summer 2021.  1-Lost Forest Children (Shalura’s Theme) 2-Revelation 3-Spinning above the Ice (Miwa’s Theme) 4-The Structure of People and Things (Teri’s Theme) 5-Justice (Tony’s Theme) 6-Betrayed But Bold (Rhea’s Theme) 7-Querida Carmen 8-The Urim 9-The Greenseer 10-Through…

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Beyond Mirando City

For Jan Seale Beyond Mirando City There are places where the stricken world tapers to an end: Thin spots, bereft of voice or birds, From which obscure vehicles in endless caravan siphon Essential mysteries or dark green dreams. I’d not stop at such blighted corners of creation, But life draws…

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The Aging Muse (Sappho)

Sappho was an incredible poet of the ancient world, but most of her poetry has been lost to us. In 2004, Michael Gronewald and Robert Daniel announced that a papyrus in the University of Cologne contained poems of Sappho. This text, recovered from a sort of papier-mâché used for Egyptian mummy masks,…

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