It disappeared in Vancouver. One minute it was there, leaning where I left it, case with familiar scuff. Next minute not. No witness step forward. Someone said it was probably […]

He woke up calmly. That was the problem. No panic, no jolt just a soft awareness that something had been forgotten. Then the clock. Then the realization that the flight […]

A song about discipline, about holding the line, about choosing clarity over chaos. Simple enough to remember and strong enough to travel. People recognized themselves in it. That is how […]

A friend put me through a mock interrogation to prepare the PhD defense tomorrow. His questions were excellent, sharp, thoughtful, direct, the sort of questions that make you grateful and […]

He speaks about it with so much precision listeners suspect he is confessing rather than observing, even though he is only reporting what he witnessed over years on the road […]

She lifts the guitar a second breathits wooden curve familiar as handstrings hold maps of years, love, deatheach fret she’s learned to understand Her fingers press where memory residesnot thinking […]

They begin as small trespassesa voice leaning closer than speech,a chord that admits what the mouth won’t.Love songs promise forever in borrowed light,folding ordinary days into something luminous,teaching the heart […]

It began as a perfectly respectable synthesizer. Oscillators, filters, envelopes. Knobs that did what they were told. A panel that rewarded intention with predictable consequence. It lived in a studio […]

Sharp chords in the darkdrums pulse like a warning heartsilence looks away

He took songs literally. This was not a flaw he recognized as such. It felt like honesty. If a lyric said something, he believed the lyric. If a song declared […]