2014
I Ain't Ready
A plainspoken song about the approach of autumn as a metaphor for everything unfinished. The refrain softens its declaration into something closer to an admission.
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9 songs
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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2017
Summer
A jazz-inflected folk song, built on a familiar, easy-moving shape. Three verses of summer sensory detail — golden, sapphire, ivory; distant, closer, right here — each closing with the recognition that...
Rough Working Demo
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2016
Caroline
A summer-memory song held at a slight, wistful distance. It lingers over warmth, touch, and the way certain seasons stay suspended in the mind.
Rough Working Demo
December 28, 2023
Earth Sign
A folk-jazz song, following a walk with a companion through the last cold days of a season. The turns — maj7 and m7 shapes throughout — give it a warm suspension. The bridge is wordless until the last time...
Rough Working Demo
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...
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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...