Tag: poetry
The Things the Cornfields Keep: An American Oratorio
A new long-form musical, literary, and visual undertaking exploring ordinary lives, memory, loss, and the American Midwest. The Things the Cornfields Keep: An American…
The gratitude journal
A darkly funny, brutally honest poem about a gratitude journal that turns into a confession, and a thank-you that can’t stop lying.
The galaxy behind my eyes
A prose poem about loneliness, abandonment, and the loop of climbing and collapsing.
the things that stay after the music stops
Some things return only when the world gets quiet. Written in the spirit of Contemplation, a solo piano piece, this poem explores memory, the…
Idle hands, devils workshop
Another Sunday, sanctified with nothing,I lie here, just another fake saint in a bad Renaissance painting,eyes cast heavenward toward the water stain on the…
October Opus 1
New solo piano “October Opus 1” evokes the final days of autumn, when the warmth of the season has begun to disappear and winter…
Demon
Dreamingof drug-dark comas to cure myselfof the pain of the world before me. My curious mind wants to destroy every road that leads back…
Numb to the burn
I’ve been staring at the ceiling,waiting for it to grow lips,whisper something.The hours keep bleeding.Heart’s a slow, ambered cigarette,smoking down past the filter,the last…
Real suffering
I want a house with a movie-script family,but instead I’m boxed inside a drug-stained apartmentstacked high with regrets. In my lonely chair, I rehearse…
Drowned – SoundCloud
Listen to Drowned by Matthew P. Haubert on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/CyBYngnopzgcD8jyuc Wrote this on my field recorder just one take made up as I went…