MewithoutYou

A cat came drifting onto my porch from the outside cold and with eyes closed, drinking warm milk from my bowl, thought: "nobody hears me!(nobody hears me) I crept in so soft! and nobody sees me!(nobody sees me) as I watched six steps off." like the pe...

All circles presuppose they'll end where they begin But only in their leaving can they ever come back around All circles presuppose they'll end where they begin But only in their leaving can they ever come back around All circles presuppose they'll end whe...

I said my goodbyes to the sun my little one, so far away. And how strange, how small we must become yet as familiar as yesterday The bluest iris that I'd ever seen SHe vanished like a dream, sinking back into the ground Singing "maybe I wept real tears...

[While, in my little world, I patched a plaster wall and in my little world, I was waiting (just dying!) to take offence at something this is all there is in my sad little world] in darkness a light shines on you and on me I never gathered figs from a...

Let us die, let us die Dying we reply "don't talkto us about suffering, look in our eyes". Let us be, let us be- Our closeness is such that wherever she rests her head in the softness underneath, she'll feel me - and you will feel me. Je leverai les...

Our house wrapped in disrepair, a small mouse peeked out from a hole beneth the stairs nearby to where my dad sat in his favorite chair, thinking about the gov't and muttering a prayer so I scattered some oats in hopes she'd stay and sat still to stop fro...

On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?" As I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought, "Why do I look around?" And I kissed the filthy ground...the first dry spot I found... I didn't have to wonder why I was l...

Call me outside, I'll come running down... You call me outside, I'll come running down. Call me outside, I'll come running down... You call me outside, I'll come running down. When I satisfied each need invented by my eyes, I was a nest by a fox's hole o...

I have my pictures of you, you don't look back at me a smile I'd almost forgotten, bruises I don't see never forgive you for a sky turned from gray to black come out and kiss me, darling I promise I'll kiss you back. a new head on my shoulder, a needle...

Pillaring stocks at the gallows-tree docks, the crowd grew impatient, as the clouds threatened rain, Elephant arrived at the Constable's side, with her trunk locked in shackles, and her ankles in chains "All rise, all rise, his Honor presides," The Judge...

Every thought a thought of you No more thought I ought to do When there is thing we see or touch we trust it's true Every thought a thought of you Every look in certain view No need for books when we're with you Wear a thin disguise oh like what's in my...

"As we melt let's make no noise oh the profanation of our love to tell the world our passing joys! And we, besides, care less to miss our eyes and lips and hands." (but honey, I'm not who you think I am!) "And so you'll be to me who must obliquely run...

It's the end of the morning what have i done? it's finally getting warmer oh God what have i done? prayers for your soul while hoping mine would leave this awful place sometime somewhere better with no more pain you won't love him you'll love me again...

I wrote a four word letter...with post-script in crooked lines, "Though I'd lived I'd never been alive." And you know who I am...you held my hem as I traveled blind, Listening to the whispering in my ear, soft but getting stronger, Telling me the only purp...

I wrote a four word letter though i'd lived i hadn't been alive you held my hem but i traveled blind thought i'd sold my soul for something better the rain came down, it wet my eyes i didn't mind it's not me that you've missed you heard me when i cried...

provisionally I, practically alive mistook sign for signified and so since I’ve often cried to run them off a cliff like gadarene swine inside my wardrobe seem anchor bent, wondering whether we were somewhat better than or maybe just better able to p...

We never met, you and I We were always inside, we were somewhere inside one another. And I'll live without you love, but what good is one glove, without the other? You only ask about my leaving, well honey I had no choice, so I call and (when you hear t...

You might sleep, but you'll never dream Onward! Progress! Or so it seems. You might laugh, but you'll never smile. Come on in and waste away awhile. When dreams of rings of flowers fade and blur Giving way to that familiar ill come over and part your so...

The bird that plucked the Olive Leaf has been circling like a record never-ending in my mind where the needle's worn the grooves too deep, and scratched the wax that's blistered from the heat besides so from any movement in the room- if my cat walked by t...

In a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile little moses drifts downstream in the Nile a fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweet rhan any wine...

January 1979...saw a terrible crash (and it couldn't help but laugh) My ear pressed against the pass like a glass on a wall of a hospital photograph. My forehead no longer sweet with holy kisses worthy of your fiery lips; I was floating in a peaceful sea re...

"I do not exist," we faithfully insist sailing in our separate ships, and in each tiny caravel- tiring of trying, there's a necessary dying like the horseshoe crab in its proper season sheds its shell such distance from our friends, like a scratch acros...

My exit unobserved, And my homesickness absurd... I said "water" expecting the Word would satisfy my thirst, Talking all about the second and third When I haven't understood the first. Jonah, where's that boat going...your ship set with eager sails? The...

You were a song that I couldn't sing you were a story I couldn't tell I've only ever loved myself But I've loved myself so well. And how defeated I return! (you're nice and blue, you're nice and blue) I missed what I was supposed to learn as all I learn...

You were a song I couldn't sing caught like a bear by the bees with its hand in the hive who complains of the pain of the sting when I'm lucky I got out alive! a life at best left half behind, the taste of the honey still sweet on my tongue and I'd run (...

Half-mast land grants homesteading laws Past Dodge Summit toward Athabasca Falls Practicing our Avocets and Gnatcatcher calls [Owl] I laid down our guns where the soldierfish swam And slept inside the shoe of the world's tallest man And I saw Charlotte...

Without a queen the locust swarm turned the ground to black descending like a shadowy tower on a fish's back and scattered the sticks who crawled like snakes in the sand as the red clay took the form of a lizard who rushed like a moth to the flame of my...

A note we wrote the other day to any mice who pass this way on crumed and sugared countertop: "we must insist your traffic STOP." in their defense, they don't refuse but nonetheless we've come to use snapping traps and poison beans (far less diplomat...

And not one motion her gesture could I forget, The prettiest bag lady I ever met... Pushing her cart in the rain, then gathering plastic and glass She watched the day pass, Not hour by hour...but pain by pain. I was a basket filled with holes, and she was...

He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet... (He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet) Then crushed the stones into the softest sand between our toes... (Then crushed the stones into the softest sand between our...

Don't waste your lips on words I've heard before Kiss my tired head. And each letter written wastes your hand, young man Come and lead me to your bed You gave me hope that I'd not lost her And then thought it rather strange to see me smile- As I don't do too m...

Don't waste your lips on words I've heard before Kiss my tired head. And each letter written wastes your hand, young man Come and lead me to your bed You gave me hope that I'd not lost her And then thought it rather strange to see me smile- as I don't do...

I'll ring Your doorbell Until You let me in... And I can no longer tell Where "You" end and "I" begin. Grape on the vine, grape on the vine, We've been alone a long time. Grape on the vine...why not be crushed to make wine? Pay no attention to me Dan...

The cure for pain is in the pain, so it's there that you'll find me. Until again I forget, and again he reminds me, "Hear my voice in your head, and think of me kindly." Let me be, let me be.. Lowered down like a casket and buried just below her ches...

First came a strong wind, ripping off rooftops like bottlecaps and bending lampposts down to the ground then came a thunder shattering my windows but you were not that strong wind or that might sound that left the barn in shambles, the rabbit hutch in rui...

Through mostly vacant streets a Baker from the outskirts of his town earned his living peddling sweets from a ragged cart he dragged around. The clever Fox crept close behind, kept an ever watchful eye for a chance to steal a Ginger spicecake or a Boysenberry...

I'll lie down for the last time and fall well away from her And I insist that I'll be dearly missed (please, say never) I'll pour down like water In between the sky and doubt we talked about 'forever' and all our other useless words. Until I say "in h...

God is love and love is real, but the dead are dancing with the dead And though all that's charming disappears all things lovely only hurt my head As I gather stones from fields like pearls of water on my fingers’ ends (And I carefully wrap them up in box...

Daniel broke the king's decree, Peter stepped from the ship to the sea there was hope for Job like a cut down tree, I hope that there's such hope for me dust be on my mind's conceptions and anything I thought I knew each word of my lips' description, an...

I was looking at the leaves, climbing to the tops of the trees... But you were nowhere to be found; Just beneath all the green you were buried like a little seed... Among the roots and underground. I was licking at the leaves, but I was in short sleeves an...

Why burn poor and lonely under a bowl or under a lampshade Or on the shelf beside the bed Where at night you lay turning like a door on its hinges?... First on your left side, then on your right side...then your left side again. Why burn poor and lonely?...

Save my skin, I need a medic Hold me down, I'm only sewn down. Save my teeth, show me you meant it Catch my death, I'm only sewn together. My eyelids are heavy, and the night's wearing on Your story's familiar, and your innocence is gone We'd burn like...

It's the smell of hot summertime trash, it's the city noise of a busy street it's a train derailed and two car head on freeway crash each time we meet "and if it comes as some sort of surprise," she said "that I seem so composed, I've kept this moment cl...

We took the twine we used to use to tie up tight our tattered shoes twisted twigs and crooked cross a necklace for the deeply lost Builder with the broken bricks Mother to the baby chicks You made this world to look so nice I wonder what the next one's...