Opening Mail for My Grandmother Lyrics

We were cloaked in the awning of night or early morning.Through the headboard there’s a flicker of lightand light warning.Sophie’s on the bunk overhead reading Mary Oliverwhile...Read Full Lyrics

You and I'd escape the night and call it summering. I'd hold your rays and ride for days while you spin endlessly. You undone, I felt safely strung between all your nerve endings. ...Read Full Lyrics

Feeling erodes moving like wash against the limestone leaving you cold when I'm leaving you all alone. Hugging the walls finding the switch to turn the light on to find you in a ba...Read Full Lyrics

Skin, caked with sap of pine, can't catch against my roaring mind. The coat slips off my etched spine. It's a weight no longer carried and I'm freezing. A message to my brother sky...Read Full Lyrics

First breath following wakes of the palms pressed, brushed on my arm and then wave stretched sending me off to descend, leading me into the bend. Keep pulsing my hand to the beat o...Read Full Lyrics

When the sun rested on olive shouldersand the wind kissed the back of your neck, I would lay and absorb in the silence, in your language I haven’t learned yet. In the tune of the...Read Full Lyrics

With ticking womb of wedlockSoaking blood through a dogwood lungThe unhinged cull of oxygenHow have I been stuck here for so long?Drained out a tunnel in an albatrossNow I’m haun...Read Full Lyrics

My Baby woke me this morning and she told meshe said "I'm gonna leave ya! I know you'll hate to see me go."but I told her "there's just one thing I think you ought to know..."Can I...Read Full Lyrics

Remember all those times at J.A. highYour thoughts were cloudedAnd every time she passed you byYou wouldn't shut up about itShe's like a voice talking over the filmWith pretty look...Read Full Lyrics

Seize the day, don’t be afraid, just ask her outThe worst thing that she could say, is just get out of hereBut you don’t know how it feels to be the runner up, the second choic...Read Full Lyrics