The Echo of the Oldest Library in the World

The Echo of the Oldest Library in the World

Alexandria, January 1495The great library has been gone for over a thousand years by several accounts and by different fires at different times, which is how destruction usually works: not one catastrophic moment but a series of smaller ones that accumulate until what...
The City Before Dawn the Morning After He Died

The City Before Dawn the Morning After He Died

Florence, April 10, 1492Lorenzo de Medici died last night. I left the city before dawn this morning with a satchel of manuscripts and nothing else. I have been pointing east for years without admitting it to myself. Today I admitted it.I do not have the words yet for...
Two Chronicles, One Testimony

Two Chronicles, One Testimony

Present Day, July 31, 2026Geometry of Ruin mapped the pattern: the recurring geometry of human systems that achieve a kind of perfection and then collapse under the logic of their own perfection, from the Medici fall to the present, twelve movements through the...
What It Means to Release This Album Now

What It Means to Release This Album Now

Present Day, May 2026Geometry of Ruin is out. It has been heard by people I do not know in places I have never been, and they have sent words about it that I am still trying to receive without deflecting them, which has never been a skill I have found easy.I have been...
In My Name: The Last Word

In My Name: The Last Word

Present Day, July 28, 2026The album closes with In My Name because that is always how it closes.In God’s name. In the name of the faith. In the name of the divine will as interpreted by whoever holds institutional authority at this particular moment in this...