A boy with a coin he found in the weeds With bullets and pages of trade magazines Close to a car that flipped on the turn When God left the ground to circle the...

Who left you so? Who left you so? Who left you so? Striking a match for the keyhole Dark as the evening laid When he left you all alone Turning to fade throug...

Let's go out and dance, darling Our last of days And grace the game with a blindfold on The cheaters came to play And outside the soft-handed boys Screaming car...

When the arrogant goddess of love came to steal my shoes She had a white-hot pistol and a noname hard tattoo Saying one's to give And one's to take away But nei...

Tell me baby tell me Are you still on the stoop Watching the windows close I've not seen seen you lately On the street, by the beach Or places we used to go I'...

How do you bust the clouds Press on your back been hanging in the air I wanna scope you out I wanna touch your mouth when you're up there When are you coming b...

Give me your hand The dog in the garden row is covered in mud And dragging your mother's clothes Cinder and smoke The snake in the basement Found the juniper sh...

Give this stone to my brother 'cause we found it playing in the barnyard Many years ago Give this bone to my father He'll remember hunting in the hills When I ...

Will you say when I'm gone away "My lover came to me and we'd lay In rooms unfamiliar but until now" Will you say to them when I'm gone "I loved your son for h...

Hey man Evening on the ground And there is no one else around So you will Blame me Blame me for the rocks and baby bones And broken lock on our Garden Garden ...

Daddy's ghost behind you Sleeping dog beside you You're a poem of mystery You're the prayer inside me Spoken words like moonlight You're the voice that I like ...

Some days her shape in the doorway Will speak to me A bird's wing on the window Sometimes I'll hear her when she's sleeping Her fever dream A language on her fa...

I was a quick, wet boy Diving too deep for coins All of your street light eyes Wide on my plastic toys Then when the cops closed the fair I cut my long, baby h...

When the men take me to the devil tree I will be free and shining like before Papa don't tell me what I should've done She's the one who begged me "Take me home...

Mary, carry your babe Bound up tight like lips around a whimper Your fingers over my face Blind eyed Samson driven to the temple And night birds digging until d...

Dreamless sleep will fall like a deep, poisoned well On the steeple birds and this red-light hotel So lay your pistol down, Granny The company men never came t...

I've become a glad man singing a song About a soldier on a good and a fallen angel Naked as a fish and a high About a sad man climbed up a willow bough And the ...

Godless brother in love You might as well Lay down that rose And fold the flag She is money and tabs That broken freedom in See her big children burning rags B...

Brave lady, i could see you through The mosses Laid, shameless in the sun My lady with her porcelain and her Weightless Face, pleasing everyone Gray stables an...

Halfway home in the hilltop trees And all our footprints in the snow And the evening glow leaving Low night noise in the wintertime I wake beside you on the fl...

One more drink tonight as your gray stallion rests Where he lays in the reins For all of the speed and the strength he gave One more kiss tonight from some tal...

And come the evening of my day The dark birds in the tree And in her garden I think I'll be there somewhere too The yarrow by my head Where are you fallin' An...

he kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill she'll never love him but knows that her father will her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her bre...

Louise only got from me innocent poetry Although she played to not listen But still I can hear myself speak as if no one else Ever could offer the same Some sa...

There is a house by the sea With jealous sisters, they're waiting for me And one is laid on the floor And one is changing the locks on the doors I've been buyin...

There is light in my lady's house And there's none but some falling rain This like a spoken word She is more than her thousand names No hands are half as gentl...

Jesus the Mexican boy Born in a truck on the fourth of July Gave me a card with a lady naked on the back Barefoot at night on the road Fireworks blooming above ...

Who's seen Jezebel She was born to be the woman I would know And hold like a breeze half as tight as both eyes closed Who's seen Jezebel She went walking where...

Run like a race for family When you hear like you're alone The rusted gears of morning To faceless busy phones We gladly run in circles But the shape we meant t...

Love is a dress that you made Long to hide your knees Love to say this to your face, "I'll love you only" For your days and excitement, What will you keep for t...

Oh, I've just come from the land of the sun From a war that must be won in the name of truth With our soldiers so brave your freedom we will save With our rifle...

Me and Lazarus, we shovel all the ashes out Black bare linens blowing 'round Back and forth and up and down Oh oh woah, guess I had nowhere else to go Me and L...

Say, say something nice to her Fragrant and sturdier Delicate hands for shoulders sliding down Days, days like a summer rain Blink and they're gone again Soakin...

I knew you well, I know you best A baby mouth denied the breast A lazy bone, an eagle eye Circling a city that's higher than the sky And it's looking like you ...

we found your name across the chapel door carved in cursive with a table fork muddy hymnals and some bootmarks where you'd been the shaking preacher told the c...

There is light in my lady's house And there's none but some falling rain This like a spoken word She is more than her thousand names No hands are half as gentl...

She says "wake up, it's no use pretending" I'll keep stealing, breathing her Birds are leaving over autumn's ending One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wi...

God, there is gold hidden deep in the ground God, there's a hangman that wants to come around How we rise when we're born Like the ravens in the corn On their ...

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to burn but the ground rememb...

Curiosity far greater than the fear It felt so simple, so prodigious, at the same time Incredible things are happening in the world Magical things are happening...

There's a prison on Route 41 Home to my father, first cousin, and son And I visit every weekend Not with my body but with prayers that I send I've a reason for...

Lately she don't care for a warmer breeze Or shade around the base of the maple trees Spring was on the mountain we climbed upon Stopped to see how high and how...

Time and all you gave I was the jerk who preferred the sea To tussling in the waves Tugging your skirt singing please, please, please Now I see love Tracked on...

Last I saw mother she rose from a chair When they caught me I'd just finished combing my hair 'Cause a rabbit will rose, as a colt does along with the mare We'v...

Did the wine make her dream Of the far distant spring Or a bed full of hens Or the ghost of a friend All the while that she wept She had a gun by her bed And a...

Dust gets red, and red dust plays On the wind near Daniel's place Danny's sick and smaller boy Rhythm lingers on and on On and on, on and on Dust gets dead the...

In our days we will live like our ghosts will live Pitching glass at the cornfield crows and folding clothes Like stubborn boys across the road, we'll keep ever...

Tonight, we're the sea and the salty breeze The milk from your breast is on my lips And lovelier words from your mouth to me When salty my sweat and fingertips ...

Beyond the ridge to the left, you asked me what I want Between the trees and cicadas singing round the pond I spent an hour with you, should I want anything els...

Papa died smiling Wide as the ring of a bell Gone all star white Small as a wish in a well And Sodom, South Georgia Woke like a tree full of bees Buried in Chri...

Waking before you, i've got a fever and a childish wish for snow Seems like a long long time since i spun you to this borrowed radio you pick a place that's whe...

Just like the way that you ran to wine When they made the new milk turn Jesus a friend in the better times Let your mother's Bible burn Freedom a fever you suff...

I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned and I have to speculate that God himself di...

Be this sunset soon forgotten Your brothers left here shaved and crazy We've learned to hide our bottles in the well And what's worth keeping, sun still sinking...

"take me again," she said, thinking of him "to the pond with the swans and the swimming" Far from his room the familiar perfume How it felt to her when she was ...

And when you give me your clothes And when we're lovers at last Fresh air, perfume in your nose There will be teeth in the grass And when you give me your hous...

Black hair, the night descending Baby never puts her trust in Tight black tie too quick to laughter Ain't no telling what he's after Found a friend without rel...

Crack of dawn the rooster moans Wake up boy you're far from home Serpentine the tracks in flames Longest path the devil laid Led you straight aboard this rusty ...

Please remember me happily, by the rosebush laughing with bruises on my chin the time when we counted every black car passing your house beneath the hill and up...

Maryanne, do you remember The tree by the river When we were seventeen? The dark canyon wall, the call and the answer And the mare in the pasture Pitch plack an...

Mother don't worry, I killed the last snake that lived in the creek bed Mother don't worry, I've got some money I saved for the weekend Mother remember being so...

I asked you a question But I didn't need you to reply Is it getting heavy? But then I realize Is it getting heavy? Well, I though it was already as heavy as can...

I was walking far from home Where the names were not burned along the wall Saw a building high as heaven But the door was so small, door was so small I saw rain...

Found your mittens behind a box of pictures You would wear them before I brewed the tea That's one memory I can easily conjure Weary memory I can always see Fo...

blackbird claw, raven wing under the red sun, hide long clothesline, two shirtsleeves waving as we go by hundred years, hundred more someday we may see a woman...

Fake watches in your broken hand Barely keeping time Barefoot in the city and your phone is ringing Bet you're watching all the happy kids Climbing on a car The...