Roost
“Now I’m waiting underneath the wings of all these angry feathered things.”
A song about chickens. Inspired by Home to Roost by Kay Ryan
The City
“Hindsight’s a liar; it’s always saying I was better off before”
Leaving a life behind
Pelicans
“Suddenly they stall, their bodies swallowed by the sea.”
About my uncle, stray cats, hoarding, a paper route, the beach, broken legs, and knowing you aren’t going to come back up this time.
Memphis
“I am faded, you’re my line. Once you are done with me, I’ll be impossible to find”
On losing your last connection to a place and time. A part of our life only exists in other people’s memories.
Evidence
“Where you stood should be bare earth”
Losing someone is sometimes impossibly hard, as is watching the world heal around them.