Ellen O'Dauver Lyrics

Frank's molars are covered in cake. He's eating enough for ten and coming right back again. Tables are cleared in his wake. "How does he do it?" they ask with a laugh. Skinny as co...Read Full Lyrics

Hank could never bear to hear it when I'd admit some broken feeling. I imagined him alone in his room, posters from floor to ceiling, but his voice was all that I could hear, his l...Read Full Lyrics

I reach for the elm tree branch. I'm floating away and I'm wishing for gravity to reassert its strong hold, to demand my descent, to return me to the cement. I glide above fallow f...Read Full Lyrics

Grassy cliff a'callin', green, it's kept up by some people brave and wily both. Apparently no fear of fallin' halts them when they are clearing off the overgrowth. In summer it is ...Read Full Lyrics

Hey Abraham, do you remember when I'd count you all out, put Scotch tape on the ends, then stack you in piles which trickled up in tiny triangles? I had a whole pile of penny rolls...Read Full Lyrics

Hopeless eyes, focusing one deck a day after thirty tries at acing the trick for display. It'll take an evening to land that kickflip down by the Cleveland Zoo, but in the meantime...Read Full Lyrics

My lost love invited me to share a meal, you see. I'd supply the vegetables and she'd provide the tofu and the tea. Her memory still haunted me, but Thursday seemed as good a time ...Read Full Lyrics

Boy in the window! Hey. I like your sweater, it suits you quite nice. Did you pick out the display and arrange it yourself for all the crowds you would watch walk by? I wish I had ...Read Full Lyrics

On some steps we sat, looking out over the skylined part of the city where I'd never been. You were in dark and specs — it just increased your stature. The characters: a nice San...Read Full Lyrics

While the sun is out, drain the water spout to the basin. A spider crawls about. Your mom brings the crates in, those yellow crates in.While you're three years old, go fly to the m...Read Full Lyrics