I spent last summer with a turtle girl Going three-thirds crazy with the hesitation blues She was 50-50, and I was certified A bona fide Bodner with the hesitation blues Singing how long are you gonna wait How long are you gonna hesitate I spent last fall doing not much at all Impersonating patience with the hesitation blues I wasted time...Learn More

Well if I am the flatlands, you’re the sea Touch me here, on my chest This is where you’re leaking into me And yes you are my woman, I’m your man Show me what you want and I Will show you what I understand A solitary songbird sings advice: Freeze the restless moon in the green river ice Inside, I light a fire and you bring me A broken hand for a...Learn More

Everything I see, it is bigger than me I’ve seen what I wanted to see and I want to go home And the past I tried to leave, it was bigger than me I tried to be who I tried to be Bigger than me and as far as I can see A single leaf in a forest of trees Bigger than me And the things you gave to me were all bigger than me And you just kept on giving...Learn More

When I was 16, I couldn’t get enough to give it for free, I was: Green smoke and ash A calculated crash Saver of the trash in a breaking home Sideways and sly And dead ends alive The snaking springtime lie inside my throat And my face is not frozen in time It has correction lines It bends a little in the light and goes on When I turned 25, I...Learn More

When I fell, it always felt Like the world had wrapped a blanket around itself All I could see, beside me Were vague shapes of what lay underneath Here and there an arm emerged A bit of hair, a stray urge Nothing connected The air fell upon itself I was lonely, broke and hungry in my attic cell Promises I made when I was afraid Well they fell like...Learn More

That sense I couldn’t shake, that I was better yesterday I’m gonna let it go And the possibilities that others saw in me I’m gonna let ‘em go Did I waste my time in line Did I blow it every time No going back, no going back And this feeling in my head, like everything’s unstoppable It’s not impossible to let it go And the worn-out memories of the...Learn More

It’s the simple things that elude me Like the how and the when and the why Every time I thought I knew who She had another to try But now that the maps are all folded In some pocket that I’ll never find I’m just pushing my way from the night to the day As I’m crossing your borderline And if there’s a crack in the windshield And a couple of holes...Learn More

Oh my dear, I truly believe You like all the parts of me That I let you see And my dear, well if I should see A less than ideal picture of me I just hit delete Get my story straight and deliver on time Make sure every character gets a line There’s a part here undefined It could be yours and it could be mine What if I told you that I I followed...Learn More

Did I call to you the way you called to me Oh, oh are you a little kittykat in a tree The house is bare but it’s getting warm Here, let me get this heavy door come in My darling one, come in You know I noticed here, where we stopped to stand Oh your lower back asking for my hand A straight-ahead path can get us lost There’s a gentle way to shape...Learn More

My girl left me on Tuesday She tied a string around all the things She’d decided to keep for a new day While I was sleeping, while I was sleeping My girl invented a sunrise An open door, a chance to be born She took one last look at my closed eyes While I was thinking, while I was thinking And since she could not give me time She sealed my eyes...Learn More

Well she came like summer rain, the world got bright Blue-green with flecks of gold in the prairie light And I said I would, oh my darling I would I would oh my darling I would Warm hands now moving down her perfect back Oh she was my prettiest heart attack And I say I would, oh no question I would I would oh no question I would She said “my...Learn More

A crooked heart still has a rhythm I’ve got a little routine that I learned from before My mouth around a tune that rises up too soon Cold air blowing through a crack in the door [x2] Now and then it falls out of straight time Skipping over the water, and it’s hidden from view And an ordinary wind starts rising up again Starts pushing me over and...Learn More