A smashed windshield, the dust on a pickup truck Shine with silver secrets in the Albuquerque sun The light makes jewels of pawn shops and drive-thru banks Wrin...

After the airship crashed After we lost the compass After the radio went dead We shot and ate the horses We marched through deadly swamps Inside a limestone ca...

I see you all the time in airports In the windows of the shuttle trains Flashing past between the terminals Below the rising planes And as I pull my shoes off ...

Beautiful William ne morning in May In a milk-white convertible drove slowly away Beautiful William with curling black hair Gold rings on his fingers as he hel...

Dented cars make me think of you Sitting on a red leather stool Drinking with your sunglasses on At the bowling alley bar And the sound of the crashing pins Be...

down that foggy road slow centipedes crawl plum blackberries fall and the ground is dark as blood down that foggy road the moon burns red as flame weeds snap i...

the Cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship like the hand of God falling from the sky a 1000 stone-carved saints hang like icicles but icicles don't take 10...

Darling, my darling, look at my waving antennae My barbed jaw and hard red pincers, the stripes running down my spine Darling, my darling, watch me fly up in s...

I am not afraid when you call me down down the basement steps under the house down, down in the ground black cows are limping, the white dogs bark crickets are...

down in the valley of hollow logs two lovers lay in the weeds safe in the net of their sweaty arms safe from the wind in the trees my love, said the boy, you'r...

I came to a field of green where the corn stalks grew so tall The sunlight could not pierce to the winding path below Round and round I went under those waving ...

I can still see you there In your grass-stained underwear Dancing crooked circles Across the golf course green It must have been 3 am When we hopped that chain...

Last fall I hunted white-tail deer My dog and gun with me I wandered to a shady grove Where ivy grew dark green Where ivy grew dark green I raised my gun so ca...

there's a mountain north of Winnipeg buried under ice and as the black clouds roll above white pines crack like glass walking under those swaying trees branche...

I want to kiss you in thickets and dripping wet glades As the stars rub against the dark skin of space Every planet is turning and calling your name For hundred...

last night I went out walking out on the edge of town not going no place special only wandering around I came upon a river I thought about what you said and co...

Like the thorn bush twines against the chain link fence Like the spider spins it's rings between the trees And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze I am the...

Oh, you little sparrows on a swaying branch Singing to the cars up on the overpass When you fly away from here take me with you when you go A herd of antelope,...

Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds An asteroid in flames tumbling to Earth Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves The flicke...

I swear I heard a bird high in the chestnut trees The sun was so bright, that bird I couldn't see No matter where I stood I couldn't see beak or wing Just burni...

my ghost drives around with a bag of dead fish falling neutrinos drift through the trees he staggers and reels, runs up credit card bills and clogs up the toile...

We came in this world together Legs wrapped around each other My cheek against my sister's We were born like tangled vine We lived along the river Where the bl...

falling snow spun above the road winding through the dark woods where my pick-up stalled falling snow hissing through the air painting my windows white till th...

Why do you dream Of pearly white gates High in the air Where no bird flies No tree grows Beyond the sky Our blue sky Why do you dream That worms and dogs Hill...

I didn't wrap my head in roses I didn't run screaming down the street I didn't drive off jagged cliffs Or dive in roaring seas I broke no cage door open I set ...

falling snow spun above the road winding through the dark woods where my pick-up stalled falling snow hissing through the air painting my windows white till th...

In the last days of wonder When spirits still flew Where we sat holding hands In half-darkened rooms Nicola Tesla In the hotel New Yorker Nursing sick pigeons ...

the giant of Illinois died from a blister on his toe after walking all day throughthe first winter's snow throwing bits of stale breadto the last speckled dove...

My heart is a beating compass pointing to the pole The great expanse of stillness, the true magnetic north I know the sky blue longing of a cloud of spiraling b...

When we were together I lay in your river As the fish swam through my hands Raindrops and roses fell from the heavens Just to brush against your skin And a stra...

Chicago is where the woman downstairs starved herself to death last summer her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept with the gray rats out on the fire escape in...

I left a black shoe hanging From a telephone wire I threw hubcaps in the bushes Filled the creek with burning tires I drove circles in the meadow Threw tvs off...

we stopped for coffee in the Redwood forest giant dripping leaves, spoons of powdered cream I wanted to kiss you but I wasn't sure how like those indians, lost ...

Up on the drawbridge when we stood in the wind My car left running, the doors wide open The wind spread ripples along the river waves Your hands in my hair as t...

When you walked with me Away from the strip mall bar Across the highway To that little graveyard Where plastic flowers Bloomed in yellow grass We sat on a brok...

Give me a swamp, a deep dark bog Where I can lose my way in pools of slippery mud Give me cold, cold rain; a cloud of stinging bugs Deadly nightshade, poison oa...

Like four million tons of hydrogen Exploding on the sun Like the whisper of the termites Building castles in the dust You're no longer leaving foot prints You l...