In Response to a Diminishing Number of Requests…

I am making it east to find my vocal pieces, which otherwise are scattered all over the blog. I am uploading them in alphabetical order, ten at a time.

All Of the Pain Is Over Now – 1974

American Lament -2004

The Ballad of Billy – 1999

Autobiography – 2023

Collette – 1999

Communion Song – 1990

County Fair -1990

Cricket Lullaby – 2012

CSS Alma Mater -2012

Curl Up and Die – 2012

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Why Mountain Breakfast?

Well, many years ago, before computers and the internet, I wrote a short story about a man who carried an enormous length of garden hose up a mountain with the goal of starting a siphon to run water from a lake to his cabin below. His only friend, a water attorney (?!?!), warned him that stealing water could get him in a lot of trouble. But, undeterred by this cautionary advice, he proceeded to climb to the lake and start the siphon. Meanwhile, his friend cooked breakfast in the cabin below. By the time the hose was hooked up, his friend had set fire to the kitchen and lost control of his wits. Just when it looked like the cabin would be burned to ashes, the hose began blasting water, and he was able to save the house. This was the first of several short-short stories in a series that I called Mountain Breakfast, in which each tale involved cooking or eating breakfast in the wild. It was all about humans, all about nature, and all about human nature. I’m still at it, still hiking and thinking and writing tales, although they’re longer now, and not about eating breakfast.

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