Sixteen military wives, Thirty-two softly focused, brightly colored eyes, Staring at the natural tan, Of thirty-two gently clenching, wrinkled, little hands Se...

there's a place your mother goes when everybody else is soundly sleeping through the lights of beacon street and if you listen you can hear her weeping, she's w...

And after the bombs subside And this long, low campaign Calls it good for the night We meet in the streets Will we meet in the bar's cold light? We grip at our...

Angel, won't you call me? Could I be the only Though I am a lost cause, Angel, won't you call me? Waiting for a sweet breeze, Read it in the tea-leaves Saw the...

I have come a few miles I got blisters on my slippered feet as i rise (X2) California's okay But i think i might stay in the shade for awhile (X2) Ladybug, ...

Billy Liar's got his hands in his pockets Staring over at the neighbor's, knickers down He's got his knickers down So the summer is eternity for you? Sleeping ...

Bring out your weepin' weeds Put on your ten-pint bowlers Bring out your weepin' weeds We're buryin' Davy We're buryin' Davy. Gather the screws and spades Oil ...

Had a dream You and me and the war of the end times And I believe California succumbed to the fault line We heaved relief As scores of innocents died And the A...

Take a long drive with me on California One, on California One And the road a-winding goes from golden gate to roaring cliff-side, and the light is softly low a...

you slept in your overalls after the wrecking ball bereft you of house and home and left you with sweet fuck-all so we got in your car with our kickabout hearts...

this cocoon, caught in vesuvius' shadow only the ashes remain and i waited there for you why couldn't you? here we lie waiting for somethig to startle to shake ...

O the minarets of Constantinople Are plated gold, ivory, and opal Their cupolas all onion domed and light And the magistrate of Constantinople Has made a match...

Cut him up, boy You've got to cut him up, boy He's a wicked disgrace, And he said it to your face You better cut him up boy Take by the teeth, Get him down on ...

Here we come to a turning of the season Witness to the arc towards the sun The neighbor's blessed burden within reason Becomes a burden borne of all in one And ...

The year old painted 'pallid' grey, the storm was coming in. Folks were Lining out in all directions. Me and 'Hord' and Henry Short were pitching On the skiff, ...

Eli, the barrow boy Of the old town Sells coal and marigolds And he cries out All down the day He lo the tamaracks He is crying: "Corn cobs and candle wax for ...

The film was a bust, but we stayed to the ending Hair all a mussed but your clothes didn't look so bad And back on the street, the rain was descending In cold d...

Four score years Living down in this rain swept town Sea salt tears Swimming round as the rain comes down Mr Postman, do you have a letter for me? Mr Postman, ...

Grace Cathedral hill, all wrapped in the bones of a setting sun, all dust and stone and moribund I paid twenty-five cents to light a little white candle for New...

and here i dreamt i was a soldier and i marched the streets of Birkenau and i recall in spring the perfume that the air would bring to the indolent town where t...

So it started in your ovaries A stone, a seedling Our bones entwined A warning from the orderlies A bulge for bleeding This will take it's time So it all ran d...

Truly, with his thorn in your side And you don't know why Julie dips her toe in the tide And she don't know why No, she don't know why she got All dolled up for...

i was meant for the stage, i was meant for the curtain i was meant to tread these boards, of this much i am certain i was meant for the crowd, i was meant for ...

Isn't it a lovely night? And so alight, with fireflies Providing us their holy light And here we made a bed of boughs And thistle down, that we had found To lay...

On a winter Sunday I go To clear away the snow And green the ground below April, all an ocean away Is this the better way to spend the day? Keeping the winter ...

there is a road that meets the road that goes to my house and how it green grows there and we've got special boots to beat the path to my house and it's careful...

Hear the hymn to welcome in the day Heralding a summer's early sway And all the bulbs all coming in, to begin Thrushs' bleeding battle with the wrens Disrupts m...

my name is leslie ann levine my mother birthed me down a dry ravine my mother birthed me far too soon born at nine and dead at noon fifteen years gone now i st...

There is a city by the sea A gentle company I don't suppose you want to And as it tells it's sorry tale In harrowing detail Its hollowness will haunt you Its st...

Four score years Living down in this rain swept town Sea salt tears Swimming round as the rain comes down Mr Postman, do you have a letter for me? Mr Postman, ...

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist In pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground And she met my father At a fete in Aix-en-Provence He was disguised ...

You belong to the gang And you say you can't break away But I'm here with my hands on my heart Our families can't agree I'm your brother's sworn enemy But I'd ...

Sweet Anabelle As seen reclining on an ocean swell As the Waves do lather up and lay her down 'til she's and sleeping Oh well I guess I'm something of a neer-do...

they've come to find you odalisque as the light dies horribly on a fire escape you walk all rare and resolved to drop and when they find you odalisque they wil...

There are angels in your angles There's a low moon caught in your tangles There's a ticking at the sill There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day As...

In matching blue raincoats, our shoes were our show boats we kicked around From stairway to station we made a sensation with the gadabout crowd And oh, what a b...

One engine barely makes it away, One engine barely makes it away. Hold on, they're breaking their bonds, Hold on, they're breaking their bonds, One engine barel...

This is the story of your red right ankle And how it came to meet your leg And how the muscle, bone, and sinews tangled And how the skin was softly shed And ho...

Big mountain, wide river, There's an ancient call, These tree trunks these stream beds, Leave our bellies full They sing out, I am gonna stand my ground You ris...

The Shankill butchers ride tonight You better shut your windows tight They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives And taking all their whiskey by the pin...

We set to sail on a packet full of spice, rum and tea-leaves We've emptied out all the bars and the bowery hotels Tell your daughters do not walk the streets al...

by the bumper cars, in the pretty twining light, i may have gone too far, i may have gone too much, too long i'm a dull and witless boy in the after bars, think...

Sixteen military wives Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes Staring at the natural tan of thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little hands Seventeen...

Myla Goldberg sets a steady hand upon her brow Myla Goldberg hangs a crooked foot all upside down It comes around it comes around It comes around it comes arou...

Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat Where every rising swell Would sweep us at our will across the sky Then temp...

When we arrive, sons & daughters We'll make our homes on the water We'll build our walls of aluminum We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon now These currents pul...

Rambling, where to begin? I tasted summer on your peppery skin Been saved, the warm of the waves I felt a slip into a watery grave My girl, linen and curls Lip...

On the lawn before the bouquet fell Long before we hear the ringing bell When all I want is a good look at your underside Reading trash like it was judy blume Y...

I'm really sorry Steven But your bicycle's been stolen I was watching it for you 'Til you came back in the fall Guess I didn't do a good job after all I was fe...

There's a wrinkle in the water Where we laid our first daughter And I think the wind blows sweetly there Over there And the windows and the cinders And the wil...

On the lam from the law On the steps of the capitol You shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock And I saw momentarily They flashed a photograph, it couldn't ...

As the sun is sinking low And the evening's tucked in tow On the horizon, my true love I see She ain't fancy, she ain't fine While her fingers number only nine ...

I am a chimbley, a chimbley sweep No bed to lie, no shoes to hold my feet On a rooftop in dead of night You'll hear me cry I'll shake you from your sleep To he...

[1] It was a cold night And the snow lay low I pulled my coat tight Against the falling down And the sun was all And the sun was all down And the sun was all A...

And under the boughs unbowed All clothed in a snowy shroud She had no heart so hardened All under the boughs unbowed Each feather it fell from skin 'Til thread...

I'm an engine driver On a long run, on a long run Would I work beside her She's a long one, such a long one And if you don't love me let me go And if you don't...

The gymnast, high above the ground, Limbers up and falls timber town Ankles splayed and all tied The gymnast long has arrived Lanky, your long sister lays Waiti...

Here she comes in her palanquin on the back of an elephant on a bed made of linen and sequins and silk all astride on her father's line with the king and his co...

[Come & See] There's an island hidden in the sound Lapping currents lay your boat to ground Affix your barb and bayonet The curlews carve their Arabesques And ...

In the Kingdom of Spain There are such colours They defy any name Like drab and dolor But oh the King and the Queen of Spain With their long unpronounceable nam...

I'm a legionnaire Camel in disrepair Hoping for a frigidaire to come passing by I am on reprieve Lacking my joie de vive Missing my gay paris In this desert dry...

We are two mariners Our ship's sole survivors In this belly of a whale It's ribs, our ceiling beams It's guts, our carpeting I guess we have some time to kill ...

Two, three, four! I got a gun, I got a girl I got a bullet-proof plan to pull The perfect crime I got the perfect crime I got a warehouse down at the docks I ...

Sing, muse, of passion of the pistol Sing, muse, of the warning by the whistle A night so dark in the waning A dawn obscured by slate-sky raining Five and twen...

I had entered into a marriage In the summer of my twenty-first year And the bells rang for our wedding Only now do I remember it clear Alright, alright, alright...

Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms you likened to a whisper I likened to a radio You were a brick bat, a bowery tuff, so rough They called you fro...

I fell on the playing field the work of an errant heel the din of the crowd and the loud commotion went deafening silence and stopped emotion the season was alm...

PART I Crone: here upon this pillow Made of reed and willow You're a fickle little twister Are you sweet on your sister? Your fallow won't leave you alone And...

Come the war Come the avarice Come the war Come hell Come attrition Come the reek of bones Come attrition Come hell This is why, why we fight - why we lie awa...

You belong to the gang And you say you can't break away But I'm here with my hands on my heart And our families can't agree I'm your brothers sworn enemy But I...

Here on these cliffs of Dover so high you can't see over and while your head is spinning hold tight it's just beginning you come from parents' wanton a childho...

With all the grain of babylon To cultivate, to make us strong And hidden here behind the walls Are shoulders wide and timber long 'til the war came 'til the war...

Soldier: Heart carved tree trunk, Yankee Bayonet A sweetheart left behind Girl: Far from the hills and the sea-swaled Carolinas That's where my true love lies ...

We're calling all bed-wetters and ambulance chasers Poor pick-pockets, bring 'em in Come join the Youth and Beauty Brigade We're lining up the light loafer'd, ...