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  • Deliver Me
    Deliver me Deliver me The light Is only perfect For a very short time Deliver me When You're blinded to The moon And it's rise How can you know The planting ti...
  • Electrical Storm
    Woman with A child's dress on Long hair Drapes the arm That cradles a daughter Who would sleep Blacks eyes open And beating But is afraid Little cat His hair s...
  • Hand Me Down All Stories
    Hand me down all stories Sweet bitter truths to live by May their pleasures be repeated Throughout our little lives Hand me down my walking cane It hangs there...
  • Help A Man
    Help a man To cross the open road Help a woman Through the open door It swings so wide Share your prayers With the people you meet At the back of your building ...
  • Iowa Lands
    Millions of acres of Iowa lands Soon you can pay for your own farm and home This gives you the free pass, industrious hands Whole families Whole families Whole ...
  • Nine Lives
    Ah, Do again what you always did As a kid Remind me of the secrets That we always hid Try to bargain with the angels Try to bargain with your friends What will ...
  • Primavera
    Yard of white birds Seen and heard Through the running screen Orchard in pale bloom A man hoes a hall The sun hasn't hit On a day you can smell The Pacific Liq...
  • Rockabye
    Put pen to the paper and sign The lines on both sides of your hand I can read What settles out at the bottom Of a bottle of wine Are promises, lies You can choo...
  • So Straight And Slow
    A deer struck down by a car Brings two cows in trade A deer not killed by the weapons of man Got some ice in my radiator, want to drive away Drinking beer at si...
  • The American Rhine
    Further on down the American Rhine Further on down the American Rhine Further on down the American Rhine Needle full of miracles Everything the size of a mosqu...
  • The Goodnight-Loving Trail
    Too old to wrangle Or ride in the swing You beat the triangle And you curse everything If dirt was the kingdom Then you'd be the king On the goodnight trail On ...
  • The Natural World
    Separate the Wings and the roots And the motions of The natural world Celebrate all high and Private places With what you have made Perfect And still How muc...
  • This Poem Is In Memory Of!
    Rifle aimed at the ceiling Just the One instrument And you must have liked it here And you stayed, sitting down "old blue monk now there's a pretty song" Warm ...
  • Troy
    The frost is on the pumpkin The wind it burns your skin Go to your grandmother She knows the shape you're in Trains that run past midnight They snake all throug...
  • Waltz
    Mention the weather When you describe the town How near it lays To where you were born How flat the sky Covers all sleeping things As dreamers we often see Glor...
  • When I Stop Crying
    Don't tell me a story Of a man who was killed Now while I'm falling away I need you beside me At the end of the day Please provide Dreams they will waltz Throu...
  • When Was The Last Time
    When was the last time You were the witness to The blacks of night blurring into blue And the weird grey light That washes up and over you The heavy blanket lif...
  • Widowmaker
    How to safely Cut a life in two Hang on the fence The hat of a man Name all the animals Met in the road (Hang on the fence The hat of a man) Children play ...
  • Yr Mother Called Them Farmhouse
    Yr mother called them farmhouses Where he rose out of the ground (If a woman walked) And when she told the story She made such a sickening sound (If a woman wal...