Undertones

A collection of lyric and narrative poems that range from intimate pastoral meditations to mythic and supernatural vignettes. The poems evoke woods, springs, hills, seasons and rural life, often with ornate, musical diction and classical or faery imagery; recurring themes include memory, longing, mortality, creativity, and the uneasy boundary between dream and waking. Several pieces adopt a reflective voice on artistic striving and fame, while others retell folkish tales of were-wolves, headless horsemen, and other uncanny figures. The sequence blends sensual natural description, elegiac mood, and imaginative storytelling, moving between delicate observation and darker undertones of loss and desire.