Truth, Unleashed

Here's another song I wrote in high school.  The melody is simple, but plaintive and pretty.  I imagine it being sung almost a capella ,...

I went through a sonnet phase when I was fifteen.  I would usually write at least one sonnet a day.  Most of them were contrived and pretty ...

This high-concept song is typical of the stuff I wrote when I was in high school, and despite (or perhaps because of) its self-conscious cle...

This is a song I wrote about my emotionally abusive father, who has been dead to me for two years.  (He was never physically abusive, though...

The thing itself is lovely, but the woman who has taken unto herself that timeless synecdoche - a shameful thing indeed.

When I was fourteen I wrote this poem to celebrate the coming of spring.  It's an intricate paean elaborating upon the parallels between...

I've had the subject of "the last acceptable prejudice" in mind as a topic to write about for a long time, having heard that e...