mostly me but love to play with shelz on flute and fiona's backing vocals, sometimes ian ..boards, baz and ray's guitars, tash's bvs, bex's percussion, margaret's rainstick and looking forward to titirangi ian's northumbrian pipes
Influences
joan baez, leonard cohen, lucinda williams, cowboy junkies, suzanne vega, and heaps of women who have been songwriting over the past three decades
Sounds Like
someone from another planet, a female leonard cohen, irish
I was born a song lyric/
on a cold July morning/
come a riddle come a riddle/
come a rote tote tote/
bald as a shaved poodle/
chubby as a force-fed chicken/
The light in my mother’s eyes/
died a little, she no longer/
my father’s apple/
He sang ‘Because god made you/
mine I cherish thee…’/
absorbed me in rolls & rolls/
of black and white film/
before returning to the road of sales/
My mother wrapped me/
in white crocheted shawl/
'lit a thin green candle'/
near my brown woven bassinette/
& watched the shadows/
under my eyes grow deeper/
feed me mama feed me/
She’d caught a falling star/
put it in her pocket/
that twinkle now flesh and blood/
I opened and closed my fingers/
flexing and stretching/
preparing my hands for years/
of plucking guitar strings/
strummin’ my pain/
that winter song of falling leaves/
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