Resuscitation

Yesterday I saw a girl Of maybe twenty five springs Clenched between the gutter Of a urine stained sidewalk And an insisting grip Of an assertive hero Compressing her helpless breasts Back into the rhythm of life Amidst a mob of matrons Carrying sacks of blood sausages With their mouth freely gasping the city air [...]

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New Soundtrack – Homecoming – Short Film by Josiah Signor

I recently finished scoring a short film by Josiah Signor – Homecoming. I attempted to illustrate the emotions of this intimate and moving film with the simple instrumentation of clarinet, viola, cello, piano, harp, and percussion.

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Death by Settling Down

Used to carry wind in his pockets The call of the forests Chirped in his ears No more Found strangled in his sleep Smothered he was By a crafty hand She promised him Ever after Happily she poisoned With infectious sameness Day in day out Two-car garage Till death do us part All the bison [...]

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A New Name

She will give you a new name Your name will be A mighty conqueror A brave warrior A knight of valor Ten thousands of ruddy horses Will storm through the gates Of your desert sand castles And drag you off To the ends of horizons In languish and toil You will subdue and slay The [...]

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The Way We Were

Long after we are gone They will unearth our bones From beneath warm glaciers Or cold ashes of extinct volcanoes They will store our frail artifacts In hermetic containers And date them Somewhere between Pre and Post With an acceptable margin of error We will be a topic Of someone’s dissertation They will chart our [...]

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When a Man Loves a Woman

When a man loves a woman He will watch her from afar One quick glimmer from her eyes Will feed his soul for a month He’ll sculpt Davids and pietas Spell out sunrises with crimson Each Madonna and Mona Lisa Will exude her resemblance He’ll write symphonies and plays He’ll build pyramids and bridges But [...]

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A Winter Night

This bright-eyed morning I was passing by familiar strangers Clutching the remnants of warmth When suddenly I saw her Walking straight toward me In a black designer coat She swayed her hips Too buoyantly For that time of day From behind the furry fringes Of a hollow hood Her purple eyes locked on mine In [...]

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Sensibility

I want to die with my high heels on And my guns fully loaded Let no one catch me barefoot And pregnant with frivolity Pausing to taste the chocolate I want to run Till I run out of warranty And earn enough frequent flyer miles To live off the interest On logical arguments And prudent [...]

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Beautiful is the Mention of Your Name

Beautiful is the mention of your name Lovely is the shape of its sounds But were it not for the language My lips would call upon it still With velvety timbres of golden sunrises And soft whispers of hisses and shimmers With every breath the muse soars On swirling currents of warm air The fingers [...]

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Danse Macabre – New Music for Piano Trio

(A sample from a live performance by Paula Farias Bujes, violin, Pedro Huff, cello, and Eva Elizabeth Holder, piano, March 29, 2009.) I am pleased to announce a new composition for violin, cello, and piano entitled “Danse Macabre“. Danse Macabre, a dance of death, is a late medieval allegory of the universality of death. Ravished [...]

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