Pick up the phone (Blessed be the thief, disguised in skin, And blessed are the fingers that gesture him in) Paint the receiver To the side of the fake, lying a...

You still cross my mind from time to time And I mostly smile Still so set on finding out where we went wrong and why So I retrace our every step with an unsure ...

Oh, we could blame it on our hands They lifted the drink to our mouths so we drank it Or we could blame it on our bodies They say, we like the way we feel when ...

She forced a smile, said, "Boy, come kiss my mouth You know that hope you're holding to? It looks an awful lot like fear Now, you're so quick to fall on failure...

(Oh crashing airplane, where were you the day she left?) Underneath the laughs there lies a need That nobody is getting And an honesty that doesn't stretch far...

Out where the stones lay like bones by the ocean Out where the waves crash contempt on the land Someone was trembling for fear of the tempest Somebody silently ...

(Crows, wipe the blood from the end of your claws Said the vulture Lets gather like storms for the war Crows, as the night turns it's skin into coal, Dark as c...

We move by instinct, darling Let our hands be hatchets, let us Wander blindly, swinging madly In a forest made of flesh We move by instinct, darling Let our eye...

Another shooting on the southeast side. This a drive-by, mid-day, Outside of the bus stop, by Fuller and Franklin. Or near there. Not far from the park. About a...

My precious wife, I am in shambles I am crumbling, I am Was it something I did Bid the tide to climb so high that it ripped our shore up I can fix it, I swear I...

"I've come here as a man in shambles—worn out from begging on my knees Please, I'm just trying to keep my family together Now, when you saw you're lover wore a ...

I know that someday you'll be sleeping, Darling, likely dreaming off the pain I hope you'll hear me in the streetlight's humming, softly breathing out your name...

They stored their passion in the creases in the corners of their mouths, Every angle of light from the open window washed their aged faces out "Should we feel g...

"Up, M'Lady--Pack your things, this place is not your home Nor was it ever, sever every tie, tonight we ride Tonight we ride" "And how we've trembled at the wa...

I'm reading over your shoulders, It says it in every line, in ever curve and crack It says it in every detail of your face, Unmistakably apparent in this dull l...

I think I saw you in my sleep, darling, I think I saw you in my dreams you were Stitching up the seams on every broken promise That your body couldn't keep I th...

Now speak of anger, Forget all the fears you've kept about love and sex and death and faith, Erased, or swinging sweet from around her neck and between her brea...

I felt your sickness brush against my arm as I walked by you — Heard your voice but couldn't tell that it was you And, slowly, watched your sickness slip away i...

After sundown, before sleeping, I am the worst of me. I am a mess of these Old themes and the murmur of half-dreams whisper seductively and Stage scenes. It's ...

Don't call this an art project This is science, this is progress And don't pretend these are heartfelt words, we are Children dressed as surgeons but disturbed ...

I spoke too soon, it seems, for you made a home in my dreams While I slept you kept running yourself through my head, Like, "I won't be dead yet" I said, "You d...

Oh, you've a pretty mouth, Leave your lips to linger on my skin and Kiss me one last time I will roll off your tongue like a whisper in the winter Sleeping in t...