The Orpheus Songs

The Orpheus Songs is a collection of love poems written in 1998 exploring desire, intimacy, mythology, loss, and memory. Drawing on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, the poems move between the physical and the dreamlike through stream-of-consciousness writing.

CONTENTS

• Poets and liars 5

• Ten 6

• Forty-one 7

• from the bay 8

• Acheron 9

• from the ferry 10

• Lethe 11

• Santa Monica Upscale Saloon 12

• lilies 13

• Elegiac 14

• mutations 15

• Hypnos 16

• Netherlands 17

• The Hours 18

• Peisinoe 19

• rapture of the deep 20

• Oneiros 21

• Iris 22

• Havens of Moirai 23

• songs for a reluctant muse 24

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