Anne Hills words/Allen Power music ©2020 Raven Heart Music (ASCAP) / Night Wind Music (BMI) From Anne’s album Accidental August I am acquainted with the night, familiar with the darkness a Luna moth floating on the wind a nightingale at … Continue reading
Anne Hills
Anne Hills words/Allen Power music ©2020 Raven Heart Music (ASCAP) / Night Wind Music (BMI) From Anne’s album Accidental August Tell me a tale, make my heart believe paint your April green, May will set the scene where heroes win … Continue reading
Before my father was my father or ever welcomed any of the 800 or so babies he helped swim into this slippery world, my mother’s hands would speak the universal language of … Continue reading
Of late, I wake at night, converse with air our constant ruminations carry on we may debate each day from dusk ‘til dawn, since now your residence is everywhere. Your lyric voice like Gabriel’s trumpet sounds though muses rouse, then … Continue reading
seems depressed. His usual courting call ending in a rapid, repetitive note tuit-tuit-tuit-tuit-tuit-it-it-ititititit is now short, by more than half. He never arrives at the final flourish his pièce de résistance his pleading, staccato insistence for a mate tuit-tuit-tuit-tuit resigned … Continue reading
winter has laid a soft sheet on a nest left dreaming of featherless pencil-thin necks holding up sunny-yellow beaks full-open, throats begging wobbly with the weight of birth the urgency of hunger and looking like tulips in the winds of … Continue reading
While tempests burn the land, the sea, the skies and trees fall, raging through the charcoal-ed air with much to entertain, we turn our eyes the Gods of excess laugh, and let go care. We worship at the altar of … Continue reading
I Rode ‘Em All, Man (2019 update) w&m by Anne Hills © Raven Heart Music, ASCAP I Rode 'Em All, Man (2019 Update) by Anne Hills Since the release of Tracks (2014), people have given me ideas and suggestions for … Continue reading
the Cafe Castelo can was a cheerful canary-yellow with a wooden cover secured on the top and holes on each end to let the weather pass through it hung, turned up just a bit, on a forest-green shepherd’s hook which … Continue reading
the vet from Lap of Love showed up just a little late giving us enough time after a peaceful night to find the lost gate put it back up give you a treat thinking, well, maybe no can we? no, … Continue reading