DESCRIPTION:
Empty Vessel Music was born in 2004, on a rain drenched afternoon in Seattle, and is the solo project of Jennifer Jo Oakley

(excerpt from 'Waking in the Dark', by Adrienne Rich)

3.
The tragedy of sex
lies around us, a woodlot
the axes are sharpened for.
The old shelters and huts
stare through the clearing with a certain resolution
---the hermit's cabin, the hunter's shack---
scenes of masturbation
and dirty jokes.
A man's world. But finished.
They themselves have sold it to the machines.
I was the unconscious forest,
a woman dressed in old army fatigues
that have shrunk to fit her, I am lost
at moments, I feel dazed
by the sun pawing between the trees,
cold in the bog and lichen of the thicket.
Nothing will save this. I am alone,
kicking the last rotting logs
with their strange smell of life, not death,
wondering what on earth it all might have become..