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NameDescriptionWritten
75/25 a simple issue of focus   1/22/03
I Can't I have to keep pulling back the words 6/11/25
I Can't Come Anywhere Near You A love song, of sorts. A "can't love" song. 10/15/21
I Want You Tell me now do you love her? 4/9/23
I Want You to Hear Ruminations on a rainy night 11/11/22
If I Lean Towards You, I Will Change Direction And you liked me with this... intention 1/2/24
I Will Wait She said, for you - for me 7/5/23
Accomplished (A. F.) stop stop slow down start all over again 12/28/24
A Fire With sticks and bones and wire 12/15/24
A Girl About a Kiss A song I made from a sketch I wrote on 3/16/14 9/6/21
A Girl We Both Know She said her love was starting to grow 5/20/24
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 List I might be one woman's dream 10/6/24
A Message Write me a letter even if you have no ink 6/22/24
A Quiet Room A poem inspired by a friend's drawings   11/17/20
A Song About You A redrafted version - stronger in general appeal 10/10/23
A Song About You (Part One) The first version, which might make a nice album closer somewhere 10/9/23
A Taste Get a taste of what's to come 10/25/24
A Twist Stains where one was two 12/5/23
In or Out About You I just have to know you 12/2/24
Acutely Aware ...of the time not spent doing this 12/25/22
Adaptation (Scarborough Fair) A traditional folk song with a 'human' touch 4/27/18
All Around Us And never calls the end 3/22/23
All Night Long I just want to kiss you 4/14/25
I Stand Alone a song about loss from 'Ruins' 6/7/98
Alternating Currents The tingle in your toes 11/4/24
And Again We're going to do it again 3/14/23
And Dance What we should get out and do 9/26/21
Another Man Every hill, another man, just a mountain to climb 11/18/24
Another Man or Two You were always cheating on him 5/5/25
Antimony Improvised (to be polished) as needed for side two 2/1/23
Are You Ready? a poem about sex, I suppose   7/6/00
Asbestos Heart Gonna need a lot more time 10/31/24
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
(My) Baby's on a Train Waiting for someone who never came 9/12/23
Barricades We put more effort into jobs we hate 3/28/24
Beast Two backs are better than one 3/25/25
Beautiful Dreams (2052) We'll both be a little bit older 5/14/25
Because 10/15/24
Becomes A poem about growing closer   6/10/18
Before the Mast She wanted me to come again 2/20/24
Bitter/Sweet every word I hear sounds like your name 11/24/22
Bleeds A direct non-corporeal channel 7/1/25
Blood Power Drain Six hey let's go for a drive 5/31/24
Blood Proof I the proof almost always comes during the pudding 5/18/24
Blood Proof III just some paint-by-number nonsense 5/17/24
Born Wrong Another shard of pottery   1/8/21
Boxes of Tears You can't pack when the cardboard is wet 6/6/25
The Brain The brain is an organ   8/4/16
Breakfast Stay 11/4/24
breathe just another love poem   7/14/01
broken1 an overview of the pain of losing love   8/1/00
broken2 bamboo analogy: the process of healing   8/2/00
Buttons Undone by our own doing 4/17/25
By 3 A.M. A poem about self - the self of hope   5/5/21
By the Bay A story about a lovely couple 3/31/22
By What Right? What I was trying to write five days ago 6/29/22
Call Me Soon She said 'Come with me...' 11/29/23
Getting Drunk by All the Right People Both a little bit behind and out in front 9/12/23
Girl With No Name She changed my life for no one to see 10/4/24
A Different Castle A castle after all but still... 7/4/23
Centuries For miles we could walk in the sand 6/9/25
A Charming Thought Who leads the rider - or the horse? 6/6/23
White Chocolate These knights are coming on fast 4/22/25
Church Then You could go but then what then? 8/6/22
cold still waiting A words and music thing 1/20/21
Come How soon can you come again? 8/15/23
Come Closer A song I found for my birthday 12/7/21
Come With Me ...come and dilute your loneliness 9/4/24
Coming Home Alone I always want you coming home when I come home alone 9/27/24
Correspondence The title track of Carbon Copy, about the walking wounded 3/22/22
Count the Stars And fall in love again 2/26/25
couples1 about the myths of commitment   8/1/00
crash a poem...   3/13/01
Crimes and Punishment - they serve as part of the infinite loop 2/14/24
Cupcake Rose You come to lick the bowl is clean 1/24/25
Dangerous Another love song. A somewhat abstract love song. 6/7/21
Daphne Smiles Nostalgia for what was but never was 4/16/22
dating1 some problems with our courtship rituals   8/13/00
Delivery Delight is served 4/19/23
Demons & Darkness There's a fine line between troubles and trouble   2/28/18
Dirty Tools A song about getting overheated 1/5/22
Discarded Yet another poem about memories?   9/8/20
Disconnection Forget all the things you think they did 11/9/23
Don't Do This to Me Now You call me every time somebody else has just left town 7/29/24
Don't Make Me Don't make me write one about you 6/21/25
Downtown Show me all that you know 10/29/23
(Sweet) Dreams The paint on your imagination is still wet 5/4/24
Dreams ...from who knows where? 1/5/25
Drown I'll drown myself in this pool 6/24/25
Drugs and Love Drugs are better than love, honey 12/10/23
Dryad Oh my, this is lovely, isn't it?   4/28/21
Elaboration Lateral strategies in tense detail 6/16/21
emotion5 those complicated chemicals in your brain   9/5/01
En Suite Unfolding you unfolding me 5/17/25
Enough For Two When we're coming we'll be home 3/27/24
Erasure A song about blankness 11/8/21
eukaryotic an odd little poem   6/8/02
Even Better, Sex You're better than all the rest. 2/22/23
Every Day (You Stole My Heart) Since the moment I met you 2/4/25
Every Promise My cotton sutra knows why 4/15/25
Everybody for Everything Blames everybody for every little thing 11/20/23
everything you were everything including yourself 12/2/22
Exclusion ...of all others 10/13/23
Expression A result of oddly cruel fictions - and even crueler facts   3/13/21
Exquisite Some more time spent with a favorite 1/22/25
Frequently Asked Questions what it says on the tin   6/23/05
fields an analogy for sexual exploration   5/12/01
Filler (With Just a Little Kiss) It's a tropical rainforest out there 9/16/22
Fingerprints Leave them intertwined with mine 4/29/25
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
Foreplay This is only a few minutes from one of life's treasured songs 8/29/24
Fortifications (Letter to Myself) A song for healing 2/22/18
Frost Never forget to protect tender new growth 5/24/23
gender1 a radical view of men and women I hold very dear   8/1/00
gender, sex, and freedom Some people don't want other people to be free 4/11/24
Get Back I took the liberty of writing the rest of the song 11/12/22
Ghost Writer What I missed the most we never wrote 8/19/24
Girls & Boys Enjoying some holidays away 4/6/22
A Glimpse of Joy ...that you will never see 1/7/24
Go Figure I sidled up to overhear 2/23/25
Goldilocks Women that try my soul 3/3/25
Photograph (Good-bye) A lullaby about parting 4/19/18
Good Love an old fashioned blues from 'Ruins' 3/8/02
Habits From a brief lyric note of twenty years ago... today? 11/28/22
Have to Go You don't. Have to go. 12/11/23
Hear You 11/6/24
Hell-Bent Rocker Rock me four flights long 5/25/24
Help I need, to find, to get, I need 12/13/24
Her Her music plays in your ears 5/27/24
Her Home She's given up on every old chain 1/26/25
Her Stars Shine for Me maybe that's why 10/16/24
What I'm Hiding A necklace beads and choker bracelet 3/11/25
Hold Me Please I'm talking about giving it to you 4/23/25
A Hotter Fire You only have to think to shudder 7/17/24
How Long Could I erase your presence? 8/5/23
If You Remember Another journey into classic folk 10/13/22
If You Tell Me ...what you want, I'll keep the path clear 6/16/25
Impressions of a Sunset a song about loss from 'Ruins' 9/12/96
(Bleed) In Dreams All traces of beauty to forget you remember 3/3/23
In Over Our Ears The middle of a kiss might be even more so 5/26/23
Whether She Came (In the Autumn) If she came in the spring would you fall? 9/29/24
I Left in Your Heart You can easily seal that hole 9/13/23
incompleteness I was in the middle of a dream 7/22/24
Inequality it keeps life interesting   3/16/04
Infinite Smile I came so far just for you 5/8/25
Insensible unity achieved when five are merged as one 4/1/23
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
It Was Raining I took some words I wrote in 11/04 and made them into a song 4/20/21
It's a Sin Bitterness, regret, and accusations 8/26/24
Jagged Depression A report on an experience I had a day or two before   12/7/17
Jealousy a song about 'dancing', remade and remodeled 1/30/23 8/25/95
Just a Little When she's feeling really pretty 4/13/24
Juvenilia Stylistic ramblings in pottery land   10/1/14
kisses a little poem   7/31/00
Lemonfishbutter a song about requited lust from 'Ruins' 12/29/94
Let Go Stop keeping her locked up 2/15/25
Let Me Go We went from fusion to fission when you went missing 4/6/25
Librarian If you know what I mean 9/3/22
Libration Those take two to operate as well 12/7/23
A Life Time A poem about memories   4/20/20
Another Life Time Another poem about memories   4/20/20
Like a Shot She thought she saw the spark 12/9/24
Like Teenagers We came undressed, caressed, in helplessness 10/12/24
Lisa Tonight every woman's named Lisa 7/2/23
Little Things the things don't let a wedge between us 2/14/24
Lonesome (Parts One and Two) ...so much I can't cry 10/20/23
Loss Is this loss? 10/26/24
Winter (Lost You To) A song about fearing a terrible loss - and losing 8/25/17
love0 preparing yourself for intimacy - and life   8/2/00
love1 pure love flows through all without aim...   7/13/00
love10 excitement provokes personal emotional cycles   3/27/01
love11 strategy?   5/2/01
love12 a castle, a cage, and a shack   5/14/01
love13 negotiation and vulnerability   5/14/01
love14 diverse relationships and their value   5/30/01
love15 just another rant about our myths and dreams   10/25/01
love16 a few sideways glances at mistakes and pain   8/30/00
love17 why do we want love?   6/6/02
love19 just getting by   1/7/03
love2 why is love so disruptive?   6/26/00
love21 extreme measures best kept in reserve   3/25/03
love22 a little discursion on what love is   11/27/03
love23 Change versus growth   8/3/17
Love A poem about healing and growth   3/5/18
love3 a little bit about the pitfalls of new love   11/25/99
love4 a piece of the puzzle as I was reawakening   10/13/99
love5 an exploration of male sensitivity in our culture   7/7/00
love6 love at a distance   2/8/00
love7 the mythology of love must be changed   8/1/00
love8 some weird stuff about getting to know someone   8/14/00
love9 what do your failures have in common?   8/13/00
Love Comes and Goes Sometimes she comes, sometimes she goes 11/3/22
love diffusion Oh please, release me 10/21/23
Love Is Warm
(Kittens Are Fuzzy)
(And so are my scarves) 12/2/24
Love Song I thought I'd never write... (an improvisation like this) 2/1/23
Love Song Part II Our spirit sings we call our minds 2/15/23
Love Song Part III The only things that keep us alive are our insatiable needs and drive 2/13/23
Love You When (You're Here) A song about the near and dear 3/30/22
Lover's Waltz a song about loss, remade and remodeled 2/1/23 5/5/97
Magic Never Leaves You don't know what I know you want me to need 4/4/23
Make You Sunshine If I but had a way 12/26/24
Meet Me in the Middle We can work it out from there 6/18/25
Memory (We Thought) Just a bitter squeeze away 10/21/24
men a short indirect parody of sexist attitudes   7/25/00
miss_you another little poem...   9/3/01
Mistress One less a layer, one fewer leaf 5/12/25
Moonlight a song about loss   6/5/98
More Than You Should You're still confused about some of this 6/8/24
Mushroom Soup You make it all more intense 6/7/25
My Lover Midnight A song about a magical garden 3/30/22
My Wildest Dreams The cover of a glossy magazine 2/10/24
On the Nature of Love and the Human Experience The cause of love never changes 6/11/25
It's a New Day Coming All over us this morning 1/1/24
New Ideas Open up my mind with your brave and wonderful new ideas   8/14/22
New Song And when you call again 4/5/24
Nobody Knows a song about neurotic fixation   9/2/97
Nobody Like You Nobody nobody nobody no... 5/15/25
normal people A song about two of you - or us 1/13/22
not_alone reversal of fortune can be a good thing   1/19/03
Not For Me How to be free 8/1/23
Not So Easy Whatever happened to love? 8/2/23
Of the Conversation Not about mythologies or unadmitted failings 5/13/23
One Day Just to be nice to you 6/15/23
One Love, One Life A pretty little thing that I wrote and sing 1/19/24
One More Time (We Should Be) If you move to me again...
(Previously two separate songs)
11/18/23
One Sail Also about mythologies and our unadmitted failings 5/22/23
Orphan of My Heart I wonder where I will ever turn again 9/5/24
otherpeopleisms a few things that made me chuckle   5/22/05
Overture (Fever Dream) The opening for Lost and Found 6/28/18
Passenger Seat (Sex in a Car) Not really a stranger any more 7/27/24
Paths (Your Sweet Anchor) I dream of the questions and you 5/14/25
People Collect People It's not cool to pin them up against the wall 10/4/24
The Persistence of Memory Take me in once, take the impression to heart 4/13/25
Pictures (Pirate Party) Overlapping conversations and dessert 10/22/22
Pin-ups All the girls looked like you that night 3/28/23
Plastic Flowers Don't make me sneeze 10/17/24
Plaything I just wanted to feel inside what he's like 12/17/23
Plaything Part Two Why do all men come with a toy? 12/24/23
Pleasure There's something I forgot to say 9/16/22
Preparing to Hide When all we've built is threatened 9/30/22
Primordial Fuse when the eve of life is defective 2/11/23
privacy1 just a few simple words   12/2/99
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
Waiting for Promises So many made just to break 3/3/25
Proof of Blood (IV) in case of flood 5/24/24
Prove It (You knew you could) 2/2/24
When I Come Home There's never any doubt 8/20/24
questions2.htm interviewing versus actually being with   8/17/03
Rather A simple little poem song about light and dark 10/26/22
Requiem It's not going to change a thing 1/12/23
Revolver It's either all or nothing 8/22/22
Right About Now How do you feel? 1/11/24
Red-Hot Rivets Stop rolling dimes up her sleeve 8/20/24
Romance Is For Others The title track of Victory Is For Lovers 1/14/22
Roses and Coffee The answers are all inside us 8/28/22
Regrets Only My words pale, my eyes tears dried 9/17/23
scars letting the past drown the present   8/16/03
Seared and Maddened A brief poem about connections   8/14/22
Secret Code And you share half the key 12/5/24
sex1 about male roles and repression   7/31/00
sex2 the void in our sexual mores   8/14/00
sex3 for healthy sex...   8/12/00
sex4 some farcical looks at supply and demand   8/28/00
sex5 sex without meaning is...   3/18/01
sex7 evolutionary gender discriminations   5/26/02
sex8 erotica   6/14/02
sex9 pornographica   7/1/02
Sexy Without Fear It's what passes for a social life this year 5/9/24
Shadow of Light (Part I) What do we call a memory of flight? 6/14/25
Shadow of Light (Part II) Iridescent light in your hair 6/14/25
Shattered A reflection on the nature of some 'broken' people   12/30/17
She (Wanted More) ...and she meant of us in her life 9/1/24
She Knew She couldn't fly another mile 10/24/24
She Moves When it's time for loving me, she moves all around 11/13/24
She Only Dances ...with a passion built for pleasure 4/20/25
She Said (She Said) She said I like it, she said 8/30/23
She Sings It Every Time I had to make it true 5/24/25
Show and Tell (Ink Today) 10/14/24
Simplify Your wishes might help you learn to fly 11/6/23
Smugglers Slipping this from here to there 2/26/25
So This Is Mary Oh yes it is 12/26/24
Solitude I'm sure I have touched on this before   2/11/18
Some Say They won't 1/31/25
Somebody Else's Well a song about infidelity from 'Ruins' 7/7/98
Someone Like You To hold me from inside 12/2/24
Someone That Hot
(Someone So Simple)
Couldn't possibly be playing me 8/24/24
Something ... please sound no alarms 9/19/23
Something More Much more than this, much more 7/17/24
Spring My Love Will Come When, then, where, there, why. How. 4/14/23
stay stay with me in the twinkle of my eye   1/19/03
Stroke A journey of precious inches 8/30/24
Strung Out A song about love and beauty. Or drugs. 12/8/20
Succubus Fly by the night of your lights 1/23/23
Sun & Rain 1/30/25
Talk to Your Girl I talked to your girl 12/26/24
Teach Me With you within, with you without 7/2/23
Ten Days in March The restless ground yearns to burst forth 3/2/24
The Canvas We all know that I want you 8/10/24
The Door Open You left 10/15/24
The Fair We'll be having a grand old time there 5/19/24
The Glamour of You I wrote this about somebody who reminded me of you 9/11/24
The Pain Learning hurts. All learning hurts.   7/14/21
The Road Home You've been all over time 6/5/25
The Tower What is its purpose?   5/21/18
The Valleys Over hills, and through your vales 1/17/25
The Way It Once Seemed I think you have the word now to know that it's true 7/31/24
These Young Men With their kind offers and tender intimations 6/12/24
This ...every day, now gimme a kiss 6/7/25
Those Boots One more crack like that and I'll have to... 9/20/22
Thunder Our strengths last longer than time 3/25/25
Thursday I might have some time for you to feed 10/13/24
Time If only life's disorder were rearranged 3/31/23
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 Late Far too late and you didn't see it coming 6/14/25
touch_me a poem, probably part of a suite   4/20/02
Touch Me (2002) Lyrics from 4/20/2002, music 10/25/2024, link is to relay file 10/25/24
Touch Me Inside I know what happened is warmer indeed 10/24/24
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
Two-Doll Holiday For you and for daddy too 5/22/25
Unstable Come now in syncromesh 10/15/23
Still Afraid of the Dark These pictures will empty some hearts 7/31/24
Voices The deliciousness of your mind 7/4/24
Wait I gave you all of mine 7/13/23
waiting waiting for results: a poem about love and death   10/19/01
Waking Dreams I wish it wasn't always never you 4/21/24
Wanted A briefly gentle sentiment   9/30/21
waves of memory a poem about healing   7/15/02
We Are Lost We even lost the map 6/18/24
We Have Never Met It doesn't really matter in space or time to be 10/2/22
What Did You Say? It didn't sound like good-bye 4/23/25
What You Got A sinuous song of the night 11/8/20
When I Met Her 10/15/24
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 To Sleep A little bit about love with no answers 4/4/22
When You Came I loved you in a slow trance 11/17/24
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
Will You Still Love Me (When You're Sober)? Will you be able to feel anything but harm? 7/2/25
(Wind Chill) The middle of the night even worse 5/27/23
Winter (Lost You Two) A song that developed out of Lost You To 8/25/17
Without You I am sadder now you're not around 8/19/23
women a two part parody of sexist attitudes   (unknown)
Wouldn't You? Love to love to love 3/26/23
Yes You Are You are the one who pets run towards 9/17/24
You and Me We go a long way to bind 6/18/23
You Can Love Now that we are far apart 4/15/25
You Can't Have Me Not even a biscuit for tea 6/6/24
You Feel Nothing The days go by. 5/2/22
You Have (Mona Lisa) You have the most of all 3/27/24
You Have Been Gone A song about gaps in connections 3/30/22
You Last I always wanted to make... 6/15/25
These Are the Ways There were many tender moments, of course   12/10/17
You Make Me Feel something inside 8/5/23
You Must Be Crazy a song about habit from 'Ruins' June 98
you a little love-type poem   8/21/02
You Want This If you've ever been alive... 11/27/23
You Were There You were there, you were always there 8/17/23
Your Hearth Your furnace and your colors more 5/31/25
Your Secrets A ruby deep embedded tells me all I know of this 8/6/24
 
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