• Chil-The
  • Children's Work
    My father was a paper plane My mother was a windswept tree My little brother's nearly twice my age He taught me how to meditate I taught him how to read I grew ...
  • Dixon's Girl
    Oh someone taught Your walls to talk But if they ask me I ain't heard a thing Back to the wall, bat to the ball Back to the drawing board Back to the wall, bat...
  • Dutch
    Mind your step I keep the overhead low Just the bed and the books and the rotary phone Chicago Manual of Style keeps the prose right crisp The Minneapolis Editi...
  • Go Home
    It's too dark Just the passing cars Illuminate the room And it's harder every time I see you And then when you leave I'm wondering when Would be too soon But yo...
  • Into The Spin
    So here we go back again Slow climb but quick to descend Arms out, arms out Turn into the spin It's lovely and brief With just gravity and me So here we go bac...
  • Lipad Ng Pangarap
    Taglay mo sa bagwis ng iyong paghayo Ang pangako ng walang hanggang bukas Pabaon man sayoy hapdi ng puso Aabutin na ang pangarap At ang bunga ng wagas mong pag...
  • Matches To Paper Dolls
    I changed the locks But your key, your key's still working Can't train a moth, I guess Each beast gets her burden So we circle this old flame Too much at stake ...
  • Mineshaft II
    Fifteen years from tonight you have to make a desicion The greatest love of your life Is gonna call during dinner From the home of the girl that he's living wit...
  • Momento Mori
    Here we are Rounding the edge again And I wonder if You recall what you said When I asked to hear Largest as yet unanswered question And you said, "why bother a...
  • Poor Atlas
    I'm building a body From balsam and ash I'm building a body with No god attached I'm building a body From blueprints in Braille I'm building a body Where our de...
  • Seamstress
    I kept an angel In a box beneath my bed Little beast had broke her jaw And I tried to fix her head They said I had to put her back That I had to put her back ex...
  • The Bullpen
    Forget the bull in the china shop There's a china doll in the bullpen Walk with a switch, fire in her fist Biting at the bit Swing at every pitch Coach put me i...
  • The Chaconne
    Now the bough breaks The books I read Said you were a fragile kid Just as I imagined it, your story goes Another nosebleed, Roses on the pillowcase The fever b...
  • The Crow
    That old crow came back today Sitting in my window like a prophet Out on the fire escape, to say Anger is just love, left out, gone to vinegar You wake up a str...