March 24, 2019
Persephone Unbound
A spring song of thaw and return, naming the season through images of water, birds, and first growth. The mythic frame gives its tenderness extra resonance.
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Songs Tagged: mythology
6 songs
December 3, 2023
Cassandra's Lullaby
A ballad, named for the Trojan prophetess who was never believed. The lyric moves from present calm — breezes, branches, quietude — to a contemplation of cosmic scale and personal smallness, and returns to the...
2016
Gawain's Night
A winter solstice song, drawing on the Arthurian legend of the Green Knight. The green man represents the necessity of darkness before light, and the narrator integrates the lesson: wearing a bit of green as a...
Rough Working Demo
December 28, 2022
Samhain
A song, written for Halloween. The Gaelic framing — kith and kin in the wind, spirits of trees, the Otherworld just behind the eyes — is taken seriously rather than as costume. The first verse is repeated at...
Rough Working Demo
March 22, 2026
Siren
A song about a woman who might be a hallucination or might be real, whose hair floats and whose siren song the narrator can't stop hearing. The refrain — "oh, I want to see me in your eyes" — is the most...