...This next piece is inspired by brother Josh’s persistent call for submissions of S2L2A&A: songs to listen to again and again. Josh would have everyone in the family compile and circulate annual CD-length lists of our favorite songs, and what a beautiful way of showing and sharing a part of what makes us tick, of celebrating our variety and expanding the awareness of our collective souls. Josh also encourages us, by making this an annual project, to keep adding to our life-list of favorite songs and to think year-round of what might go on our next year’s list. So, one song at a time, I came up with the following twelve...
I am calling this collection “Co-opted,” as it is centered around several of my own poems that I have set to other people’s music. Consider these co-opted works my P2SA&A: poems to sing again and again.
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