The song “Bleakness” I originally wrote then sang the melody first. Steven Wickes then added his masterful guitar. It was years later when Steven professed it was his favorite piece, saying, "It still held water."
     The song is about breaking into an abandoned home and finding things left behind from the family that lived there and seemingly left everything in a hurry and then finding evidence of squatters living in the house and being very scared.

Parker Crossing emerged as my bridge from verse to voice, turning my intimate poetry into songs that share the depth of my lived truth.

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