Adriene Crimson

Listening to Dead Can Dance’s album Into the Labyrinth makes me, an atheist, feel as if inside a temple where I am filled with a potent, un-nameable, un-categorical mystical energy.
Their song “The Carnival is Over” is particularly mesmerizing for my spirit.

Here are the lyrics:
Outside
The storm clouds gathering
Move silently along the dusty boulevard
Where flowers [...]

When I was a kid my bedroom was just off of the living room at the front of an old stone Victorian apartment house in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I had two walls of windows and at the foot of my bed was a glass door with a sheer curtain, as if my room had [...]