BELLEPHERON DRACO

In the midst of our Thanksgiving Dinner the bell rang. We froze. My younger brother got up. He had become the elected “welcome” official in these times, as he was a newly ordained Jesuit priest. No one would dare lay a finger on him. He came back to the dining room, “It’s for you, a friend of yours from New York,” I went to the living room and there was Petard. I hadn’t seen him in a ...

Brightness Falls:Three Movements / A Note to the Composer

A good number of musical influences shaped the writing of this piece. One of them was the idea of the oratorio—like what Handel did with the Messiah. He was dealing with past and future glory, Brightness… deals with past and present falls— from grace. While Handel was intrigued by the weight and beauty of the scripture, I am a little more interested in the messengers—angels and their ...

Stranger on Earth: Tech Rehearsal

Tech Rehearsal at New York Live Arts for ‘Stranger on Earth’ by Carl Hancock Rux ‘This Bitter Earth’ performed by: Marcelle D. Lashley, voice Jason DiMatteo, bass Ted Cruz, piano Visuals by Featurezoo http://featurezoo.net

Sphinxe

“Heady perfume...” You are mistaken. This is light compressing forward me penetrating you: heatseeking pheromone trace

Diamond

In response to your query, a diamond

It’s Probably Raining Outside

there's only room tone at the other end you hold on, mesmerized by shimmer slow drift shards icy oxygen silence then you hang up

Firmament

I am the twilight whispering cusp of spidery fate a nomad heartbeat sync'd to mysterious nebulae