Bringer of Melody

Words

Essays

Belief in the Banal
Aug 21, 2022
Eulogy For my brother
Feb 26, 2022

Poems

The Twelve Steps are Giant Steps is a series of acrylic paintings and poems that show the fatal nature of addiction. Some people can float along holding the Magic-8-Ball-of-Fate like a balloon. Others are dragged down by it like a ball and chain. Some have their identities totally obscured by it. Living with a personal addiction or caring for an addict is like sitting beneath the sword of Damocles.

Stories

Drawings for Strangers is an unfinished blog that chronicles the sketches i gave to helpful characters i met along the Mississippi River with my friend “Boots.”