Lost in what we've found,
There's no need to look or speak or say
When I feel you and you feel me in the
Beat in our veins and the
Same man's soul pulsing through our brains.
Can you be a stranger
When I sing and you sing and we sing to the same lines,
If we laugh to the same...
We laughed, knowing
These boots would likely fail us.
They made a squelch like rubber on the street,
Tripped and slipped on slopes,
And plodded slowly through the lawns.
Our feet were soaked through in an hour.
And yet we walked.
Because we didn't know where to go,
Because we had nowh...
You look at me with your eyes in knots, your
Hair combed straight and only your nostrils
Wild, and ask, “are you a fool?”
In this world,
Elizabeth, how can I not be?
We eat pizza for breakfast and cereal
In the middle of the day because why the hell not?
We run outside and shout because...
He offered me a piece of
Forever
Resting in his palms;
I laughed.
What happened to today?
Can we immerse ourselves,
Eyes screaming,
Senses pounding,
In what our fingers
Know we have?
"What happened to today?"
I asked him.
I wish I knew....
I followed you through flames untouched;
I thought I'd touch them too.
I'd never known a moor before
Nor seen such shades of blue.
You weren't the pulse beneath my palms
Or hiding in the rush,
But with silly feet I crossed the street
Through flames I couldn't touch.
The...
We were just a cluster, not knowing what to expect, when we came upon a gravel road, not across our path, but alongside it. You never realize how much noise you're making or how tightly your eyes were shut until a herd of deer catches your eye, bringing a hushed reverence.
We stood, still a clus...
You saved my life by showing me your eyes.
When they were closed and weary, I could see
The way your back had strained beneath her cries,
Hands heavy with a barren destiny,
Deep lines like trenches etched across young skin,
Gray that had crept in while your soul was green,
A thick scar on an a...
Does the willow keep on waiting to take you beneath its shade?
Did the forest that you ran through, and the sweet immortal glade,
And the lake that lives forever, once consider otherwise?
Do they still await your laughter? Do they know you will not rise?
Does their stillness show they're ...
The world seems smaller now that I?ve seen Paris. When I drive home from my three-room lakehouse in Spence County, past grass growing brown in autumn air and little brick churches nobody will ever hear about, it feels small and insignificant, but also real and whole and here. Paris is no longer a fa...
They told me the studio was Abbey Road, where the Beatles
Had recorded the songs that made history
across the universe. In front of it was the wall,
plastered with what must have been half a million signatures
In red, black, blue, thick, thin, firm, quivering ink,
Some contemplative, some vulga...