You are what I've wanted at the closest, At the furthest away When I was bound by compass marks, You engaged me in the tallest grass With the tines of a savage...

She keeps looking up and says, "The sky is assembling an army" I hold her closer and push her hair out of her face "There's nothing to fear unless They start sh...

One more rainy day serenade And i tend to fall apart When the summer shatters recklessly Into masterpieces and melodies About the day she broke his heart Into a...

My fingers are white like whispers And the lips that consume them are flames For lack of better things to set on fire My knees are red like rumors From this go...

We haven't talked in a while I stare out the window, mile after mile You said I live in denial Well so what if I cry like a child? I still melt in the wake of ...

Welcome to the last time That You can buy my answer with less than a question I would sell the hands off my wrists if they weren't so preoccupied With taking th...

I thought of writing you a song In a tired repetition Of the words I meant to sing you all along But never did I have some great appreciation For lunar tides a...

When I wake up on fire And get caught in the sheets, My dreams of safety hit the floor I've heard the air raid too many times before To be bothered by the bombs...

I meant to see you one more time In that white dress splashed with brine From the northern coast Where we learned our lessons the first time A line assigned to...

Show me a light that doesn't go out When the people tire of tending it, When they go to sleep content Show me gold that we can wear On the inside of our wrists...

I can't be expected To hold this up You're spinning tops And when they drop, Am I responsible? Is what you're telling me? Well I'll give my money If they ask m...

And even after we all collapse in laughter And all the perfume passes from hands to tapered glasses, We're still stuck in suits and dresses -- Loosened ties and...

I'm tired of seeing you boxed up In cardboard and army fatigue, threadbare in 20 degrees And I'll be walking around you so lightly, Hoping that you won't distur...

Come home! I am so temporary, Tell me I can sing to You With my mouth so full of blood I am so fragile, Tell me I can run to You When I can hardly stand on my ...

I've been tearing at this gauze over my eyes And clanging cymbals till I couldn't hear Your screaming anymore I used to speak in the tongues of angels, All I e...

How vaguely we eschew complicity with You, It's always run-arounds, excuses And words we bind to nooses Just to sullenly let swing The best of arbitrary things,...

"Carry me when my legs give out," he says We did not expect this bramble, This thick of thorns You always see us running to anywhere But where we're meant to, T...

I have been both lover and beloved, unrequited Dispassionate and quiet around you And when I am old, when the skin under my eyes Stretches to wrap around the t...

Throw open the floodgates, We want to feel Your love! But haven't I been waiting? Haven't I been getting up from falling dreams And slipping on the frozen stre...

I have been both lover and beloved, unrequited Channeling our ghosts and calling it habit And you wouldn't have it, So we spent four months learning to sift Se...