| Name | Description | | Written |
| 75/25 |
a simple issue of focus |
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1/22/03 |
| I Can't Come Anywhere Near You |
A love song, of sorts. A "can't love" song. |
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10/15/21 |
| I Want You to Hear |
Ruminations on a rainy night |
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11/11/22 |
| I Was Five Once |
A poem about the illusions of age |
|
1/15/20 |
| A Girl About a Kiss |
A song I made from a sketch I wrote on 3/16/14 |
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9/6/21 |
| A Girl About a Kiss (draft) |
A draft of a poem that I turned into 'A Girl About a Kiss' on 9/6/2021 |
|
3/16/14 |
| A Quiet Room |
A poem inspired by a friend's drawings |
|
11/17/20 |
| Acutely Aware |
...of the time not spent doing this |
|
12/25/22 |
| Adaptation (Scarborough Fair) |
A traditional folk song with a 'human' touch |
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4/27/18 |
| again tomorrow |
...and it might be worse... |
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6/14/22 |
| alibi |
a furtive little poem |
|
11/30/99 |
| Alien and Yet |
A poem about space |
|
3/14/20 |
| All the Time |
Who else would understand? |
|
11/5/21 |
| I Stand Alone |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
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6/7/98 |
| america9 |
GWB has depleted my freedom and serotonin |
|
9/25/03 |
| Ammonia |
Somebody had to say it |
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1/14/23 |
| and Art |
A poem about art and barnacles. And stuff. |
|
2/26/21 |
| And Dance |
What we should get out and do |
|
9/26/21 |
| Are You |
a little poem for those you do not know yet |
|
7/8/00 |
| Are You Ready? |
a poem about sex, I suppose |
|
7/6/00 |
| A Box in the Attic |
A sad poem about losing part of one's life |
|
12/20/17 |
| autumn |
a little happy seasonal relief |
|
9/6/03 |
| Back Roads Rock |
A song about cars and girls |
|
9/21/21 |
| Bad Weekend (3:16) |
A song about a long lost weekend |
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11/16/20 |
| Beauty (Is) |
... timeless and nameless. A song. |
|
5/21/18 |
| Becomes |
A poem about growing closer |
|
6/10/18 |
| Believe |
a song about faith from 'Ruins' |
|
5/6/98 |
| Bitter/Sweet |
every word I hear sounds like your name |
|
11/24/22 |
| Blackout |
I don't know what this (song) - or any of this - is. |
|
1/26/21 |
| Born Wrong |
Another shard of pottery |
|
1/8/21 |
| breathe |
just another love poem |
|
7/14/01 |
| breeze |
A poem about a love lost |
|
4/19/00 |
| Burning Rocks |
A draft of a poem, set to music 2/6/22 |
|
12/15/21 |
| butterfly |
a poem from a naked heart |
|
6/18/01 |
| By 3 A.M. |
A poem about self - the self of hope |
|
5/5/21 |
| By the Bay |
A story about a lovely couple |
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3/31/22 |
| By What Right? |
What I was trying to write five days ago |
|
6/29/22 |
| Calling Home |
A song about time and space. A folk song. |
|
1/1/22 |
| Choices |
a song about freedom from 'Ruins' |
|
1/28/97 |
| choke |
not a pretty sight |
|
11/6/01 |
| Church Then |
You could go but then what then? |
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8/6/22 |
| Citrus |
A song, now, about waste |
|
11/8/20 |
| Closer (To the New) |
...than the old - another damn song |
|
5/27/18 |
| Clouds |
A poem |
|
11/8/20 |
| Cold April |
A sequel of sorts to March Snow |
|
4/10/18 |
| cold still waiting |
A words and music thing |
|
1/20/21 |
| Come Closer |
A song I found for my birthday |
|
12/7/21 |
| Confidence |
A time of restlessnesses |
|
8/9/21 |
| Correspondence |
The title track of Carbon Copy, about the walking wounded |
|
3/22/22 |
| Counterfeit |
A song about death - the death of hope |
|
5/5/21 |
| crash |
a poem... |
|
3/13/01 |
| Dancing Woods |
Un poème, une chanson, de Norvège et d'Ecosse: a thousand-year throwback, give or take a century or two |
|
9/30/21 |
| Dangerous |
Another love song. A somewhat abstract love song. |
|
6/7/21 |
| Daphne Smiles |
Nostalgia for what was but never was |
|
4/16/22 |
| darkness |
a formless echo from the abyss |
|
1/30/03 |
| dawn |
Seventeen dueling syllables |
|
5/15/21 |
| days |
dark depressing little ones, indeed |
|
8/25/03 |
| death (is a theme) |
A poem about life |
|
9/25/20 |
| Demons & Darkness |
There's a fine line between troubles and trouble |
|
2/28/18 |
| Dinosaur |
I made a song from these dreams in April 2021 |
|
11/29/04 |
| Dirty Tools |
A song about getting overheated |
|
1/5/22 |
| Discarded |
Yet another poem about memories? |
|
9/8/20 |
| Dislodged |
For the scattered among us all |
|
12/21/22 |
| double_dare |
a poem about life's challenges |
|
7/19/01 |
| Down the Road |
A little something the band and I came up with |
|
10/18/22 |
| drainstorm |
:"drainstorm, dreamstürm, gauche-mière": |
|
8/18/01 |
| dream3 |
a strange snippet I woke with |
|
11/6/03 |
| drugs |
they're bad, don't use them, unless... |
|
12/27/01 |
| Dryad |
Oh my, this is lovely, isn't it? |
|
4/28/21 |
| Elaboration |
Lateral strategies in tense detail |
|
6/16/21 |
| Electric |
Zzzzt |
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1/23/24 |
| Erasure |
A song about blankness |
|
11/8/21 |
| escape |
a spoken word piece about words |
|
4/6/00 |
| eukaryotic |
an odd little poem |
|
6/8/02 |
| everything |
you were everything including yourself |
|
12/2/22 |
| Exit Wound |
a song about life and death from 'Ruins' |
|
Sept. 95 |
| Expression |
A result of oddly cruel fictions - and even crueler facts |
|
3/13/21 |
| fear |
the only thing to fear is... |
|
11/4/03 |
| fear2 |
a short, sweet romantic poem |
|
6/20/00 |
| Filler (With Just a Little Kiss) |
It's a tropical rainforest out there |
|
9/16/22 |
| Flowers |
I thought you were the one |
|
7/8/22 |
| (Out of) Focus |
A poem from the eye of the storm (2:25 AM) |
|
12/6/17 |
| For Who You Are |
A song about growing younger |
|
3/15/22 |
| (You're Not Here) To Forgive |
A song about a shift in perspective |
|
3/9/18 |
| Fortifications (Letter to Myself) |
A song for healing |
|
2/22/18 |
| To My Friend |
A little something I wrote for a friend |
|
4/2/18 |
| Full of Strangers |
You should treat them as yourself |
|
6/13/22 |
| Ghosts |
some midnight madnesses |
|
6/29/00 |
| ghosts2 |
adapted to the second person from 6/29/00 |
|
7/10/02 |
| Girls & Boys |
Enjoying some holidays away |
|
4/6/22 |
| Glorious |
And so we embark upon unknown crossings |
|
1/1/23 |
| gods_and_monsters |
time to regroup and start over? |
|
8/13/03 |
| Photograph (Good-bye) |
A lullaby about parting |
|
4/19/18 |
| Good Love |
an old fashioned blues from 'Ruins' |
|
3/8/02 |
| (Climbing) Gravity's Well |
An astronomical song |
|
12/2/20 |
| grey |
a poem to wash over you |
|
(unknown) |
| Habits |
From a brief lyric note of twenty years ago... today? |
|
11/28/22 |
| happy |
an odd little poem - are you happy? |
|
12/10/95 |
| hell |
lightly treading the extremes of creation |
|
8/27/03 |
| Homeland |
as if the world needs more sixties peace stuff |
|
3/21/04 |
| hope |
just a glimmer in the shadows |
|
8/15/03 |
| humor |
life with and without laughter |
|
8/25/03 |
| Hunger |
a song about food from 'Ruins' |
|
2/10/94 |
| icicle |
a bleak, cold little poem |
|
1/11/97 |
| If You Remember |
Another journey into classic folk |
|
10/13/22 |
| Impressions of a Sunset |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
|
9/12/96 |
| Intending to Love |
'As long as I don't realize they are pretending, I'll take it.' |
|
5/1/22 |
| Invasive |
The title - and closing - track of IntroViolet |
|
7/11/21 |
| Invitation |
A poem about first meeting |
|
2/26/18 |
| Islands |
(A song about) coming back to Earth |
|
1/31/21 |
| It Was Raining |
I took some words I wrote in 11/04 and made them into a song |
|
4/20/21 |
| Jagged Depression |
A report on an experience I had a day or two before |
|
12/7/17 |
| Jealousy |
a song (formerly She Only Dances) |
|
8/25/95 |
| June Nights |
I guess it's this month's pastorale |
|
6/10/18 |
| kisses |
a little poem |
|
7/31/00 |
| Lemonfishbutter |
a song about requited lust from 'Ruins' |
|
12/29/94 |
| Liberty |
A poem about freedom and time |
|
11/24/20 |
| Librarian |
If you know what I mean |
|
9/3/22 |
| life1 |
imaginary little literary scavenger hunt |
|
8/19/03 |
| A Life Time |
A poem about memories |
|
4/20/20 |
| Another Life Time |
Another poem about memories |
|
4/20/20 |
| Lighthouse (You Will Find Your Way) |
Another (song) from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) |
|
12/6/17 |
| Lighthouse (original version) |
Another poem from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) |
|
12/6/17 |
| Lives' Lines |
A poem about lines, one would assume. And lives. |
|
2/15/21 |
| little_girl |
a poem |
|
9/5/97 |
| Lived In |
a small poem about the passage of time |
|
7/8/96 |
| Llamas on Their Way to Denver |
Exactly what it says on the tin |
|
7/26/21 |
| Winter (Lost You To) |
A song about fearing a terrible loss - and losing |
|
8/25/17 |
| love22 |
a little discursion on what love is |
|
11/27/03 |
| Love |
A poem about healing and growth |
|
3/5/18 |
| Love Comes and Goes |
Sometimes she comes, sometimes she goes |
|
11/3/22 |
| Love You When (You're Here) |
A song about the near and dear |
|
3/30/22 |
| Lover's Waltz |
a song about loss |
|
5/5/97 |
| Magpies |
We understand corruption as little as we do justice |
|
12/10/21 |
| Make It Stop |
Just trying to make it all stop. |
|
3/7/21 |
| March Snow |
A poem set in late winter |
|
3/11/18 |
| massacre |
metal detectors in schools??? |
|
4/26/99 |
| May Flowers |
This month's pastorale |
|
5/10/18 |
| meaning |
so, um, what was happening in your life? |
|
11/16/03 |
| synaesthesia |
It's not really synaesthesia, but interesting nonetheless |
|
5/20/21 |
| mirrors |
a poem - a reflection, of course |
|
11/16/99 |
| miss_you |
another little poem... |
|
9/3/01 |
| Missing |
A poem about a huge loss |
|
5/8/18 |
| Moonlight |
a song about loss |
|
6/5/98 |
| My Lover Midnight |
A song about a magical garden |
|
3/30/22 |
| Needles (Go Away) |
A painful moment set in verse |
|
3/19/18 |
| New England |
a poem based on a vision from last fall |
|
6/29/00 |
| night |
a poem inspired by a star |
|
8/15/02 |
| No Way to Live |
But a worse way to die. From notes of 6/21/22 |
|
7/4/22 |
| Nobody Knows |
a song about neurotic fixation |
|
9/2/97 |
| normal people |
A song about two of you - or us |
|
1/13/22 |
| Northern Eyes |
a song about war |
|
7/9/97 |
| not_alone |
reversal of fortune can be a good thing |
|
1/19/03 |
| Nothing to Heal |
A song - a waltz macabre |
|
1/8/21 |
| Overture (Fever Dream) |
The opening for Lost and Found |
|
6/28/18 |
| peace |
...I'm tired of writing about war |
|
1/8/04 |
| peace1 |
give it a chance |
|
10/22/01 |
| People Like You |
People like people like you |
|
8/17/21 |
| Pleasure |
There's something I forgot to say |
|
9/16/22 |
| Royalty, Democracy, and Socialism |
The absurdity of inheritance, all wrapped up in two sentences |
|
3/7/21 |
| Gender-free |
The privilege of life in the power corner |
|
5/23/21 |
| Postcard From Blue |
A song about some sun and some rain |
|
1/15/22 |
| Preparing to Hide |
When all we've built is threatened |
|
9/30/22 |
| Private Plains Ape |
A song about how we survive and function in groups |
|
2/10/21 |
| Private Plains Ape - part number three |
Another take on our sameness and differences |
|
3/4/21 |
| Private Plains Ape - version one point one |
A six-page expurgation about learning and coercive socialization |
|
2/9/21 |
| profile |
eh, what kind of person would you like to meet? |
|
1/21/03 |
| prometheus |
a harsh and tragic outburst of ego |
|
1/21/03 |
| Promised Land |
a fairly harsh poem |
|
6/26/00 |
| Psycho Metric |
ego love shallow trash |
|
5/16/22 |
| questions |
a poem - based on the intro to hunger |
|
1 & 4/00 |
| Rather |
A simple little poem song about light and dark |
|
10/26/22 |
| I Go Back and Remember |
Another one from the eye of the storm (2:50 AM) |
|
12/6/17 |
| Requiem |
It's not going to change a thing |
|
1/12/23 |
| Revolution |
If you want a revolution... |
|
7/15/22 |
| Revolution (one) |
a few riffs on a phrase or two from poverty1 |
|
11/26/99 |
| Revolver |
It's either all or nothing |
|
8/22/22 |
| Romance Is For Others |
The title track of Victory Is For Lovers |
|
1/14/22 |
| The Rose |
A poem about gardening |
|
10/10/20 |
| Roses and Coffee |
The answers are all inside us |
|
8/28/22 |
| scars |
letting the past drown the present |
|
8/16/03 |
| Seared and Maddened |
A brief poem about connections |
|
8/14/22 |
| Seasons |
Our work will never be done |
|
9/10/22 |
| sex |
a sweaty little suffering |
|
7/7/01 |
| Shambles |
a song about - who knows what - from 'Ruins' |
|
June 96 |
| Shopworn |
Damaged goods still sold as new |
|
7/11/21 |
| silence |
a sad little poem |
|
7/16/00 |
| Silent Flowers |
Another oldie, a sad classic by now |
|
7/2/21 |
| Slavery Rag |
Friday, June Twenty-Fourth, Twenty Twenty-Two |
|
6/24/22 |
| Sleep |
a poem |
|
6/26/00 |
| I Miss Smoking |
What I miss about nicotine |
|
3/22/22 |
| Some Stories |
Your tale might not be written yet |
|
9/17/22 |
| Somebody Else's Well |
a song about infidelity from 'Ruins' |
|
7/7/98 |
| stay |
stay with me in the twinkle of my eye |
|
1/19/03 |
| Steam Dreams |
A poem about the future |
|
5/6/18 |
| stillborn |
a short but powerful prose poem |
|
1/9/00 |
| Stilled Life |
A poem |
|
12/12/20 |
| Strung Out |
A song about love and beauty. Or drugs. |
|
12/8/20 |
| Subway Blues (A Cost-Benefit Analysis) |
A treatise on urban planning |
|
1/25/22 |
| Succubus |
Fly by the night of your lights |
|
1/23/23 |
| Sunflakes |
A musical treatsicle |
|
12/21/20 |
| Tank Treads |
The destruction we wreak for no reason breaks my heart |
|
11/1/21 |
| The Devil to a Draw |
nightmare slayer |
|
5/21/22 |
| Does the Heart Feel Pain? |
A brief biochemical and philosophical analysis |
|
12/1/22 |
| (In the Theater) Tonight |
A light-hearted song |
|
3/9/18 |
| Those Boots |
One more crack like that and I'll have to... |
|
9/20/22 |
| time |
does every poem need a short description? |
|
11/24/02 |
| time3 |
a little relativistic contrast |
|
11/28/03 |
| Time With Fire |
Pasts and futures always present |
|
5/3/22 |
| Tomorrow |
Hope is always the last to die |
|
12/17/17 |
| Too Many |
A reflection on pandemia |
|
10/19/20 |
| touch_me |
a poem, probably part of a suite |
|
4/20/02 |
| Tourists of Terror |
Basic vanilla in crisis: a poetry |
|
1/8/21 |
| Trust |
an instrumental from 'Ruins' that I made up words for |
|
12/11/02 |
| Strawberry Tuesday |
A love song. She liked chocolate shortcake. |
|
5/26/21 |
| unbelief |
a little poem about the sentimentalisation of war |
|
1/9/00 |
| Unwelcome Sense |
Which I have requested to not return |
|
8/14/22 |
| Stupid Global Village |
A song about perspective from 'Ruins' |
|
9/23/04 |
| Virtue |
A poem about addiction |
|
4/22/18 |
| Visitors |
my houseguests |
|
9/1/97 |
| waiting |
waiting for results: a poem about love and death |
|
10/19/01 |
| wake |
one last look before the worms have their way |
|
10/16/03 |
| Wanted |
A briefly gentle sentiment |
|
9/30/21 |
| war |
I could stop writing these, yes, I would like that... |
|
10/8/01 |
| war3 |
another one of those poems about war |
|
8/05/03 |
| waves of memory |
a poem about healing |
|
7/15/02 |
| We Have Never Met |
It doesn't really matter in space or time to be |
|
10/2/22 |
| we_have_won |
a poem about war and glory |
|
(unknown) |
| We Would Die |
If they touched us |
|
5/27/22 |
| Wet July |
This month's heat-stroked pastorale |
|
7/21/18 |
| wgbh |
copy of Mai Cramer tribute note |
|
4/9/02 |
| What You Got |
A sinuous song of the night |
|
11/8/20 |
| When I Was Young |
It seems like I don't like the summer as much |
|
8/17/22 |
| When She Twists |
Every one a soft sweet peach |
|
7/12/22 |
| When She's Gone |
A song about the mysteries of love |
|
11/18/20 |
| When This Is Over |
A plague-inspired song |
|
4/11/20 |
| When To Sleep |
A little bit about love with no answers |
|
4/4/22 |
| Who Could Ever Forget? |
A song about moments of eternity |
|
3/13/22 |
| Who Falls In Love |
Are you a person... |
|
6/12/22 |
| Why Ask Me |
You know answers |
|
12/16/22 |
| wind |
is the wind an animal? |
|
8/10/03 |
| Winter (Lost You Two) |
A song that developed out of Lost You To |
|
8/25/17 |
| words |
a little diddly about language and minds |
|
1/19/03 |
| you |
a little love-type poem |
|
8/21/02 |
| You Gotta Heal |
You really, really have no choice |
|
6/20/22 |
| You Gotta Steal |
Learn how to use your voice |
|
6/20/22 |
| You Have Been Gone |
A song about gaps in connections |
|
3/30/22 |
| These Are the Ways |
There were many tender moments, of course |
|
12/10/17 |
| You Made It |
A poem/song about and for a friend, from 6/13/22 |
|
8/19/22 |
| You Must Be Crazy |
a song about habit from 'Ruins' |
|
June 98 |
Random |
Pick a thought at random, or go to the "index index" |
|
Indexed |
| Support | This is where I shamelessly solicit your contribution to the cause! |
| Dedicate | A list of past dedications |
| Reading | Some recommended reading |
