No one ever looks so beautiful
as when they are leaving
and now that you're gone 
oh darling don't you
look so god damn good?

All The World’s Alarms

I walk out on the wire
Lay down on the knives
And hope the daggers will hold

Angel On Earth

Give me sad I love you's
Give me your sweet little clues
Give me hysterical vengeances 
And shriek with your body "j'accuse!"

Perfect Heaven

...one bed alive 
two bodies writhe 
All that we sought to learn 
From four burning nights 
Brought five bitter lies and
all that it taught us to do was run...

Five Bitter Lies

Silent garlands in her hair
Quiet distance tints her eyes
Where the violence 
of unspoken love remains

The Strangest Thing

When I'm alone, you materialize 
Right before my ecstatic eyes 
Then when I reach out, you vaporize
And a stunned and stunted heart
Starts to splinter up

Girl In Grace And Distance

Now it's straight back to the drawing board
but out of chalk to draw the line

Rebound

Of all the skies we walked
And all the nights we swam out
Only one vision remains--
A wine-sweet moon bleeds red
And our wrathful grapes, 
just for an hour, calm to low tide

Lithe Lies And Lullabies

They all say they want something different 
but say it the same 
as halfheartedly as a Madame 
might call out your name 
but if you look the China doll in the eyes 
you'll see etched into the pearl Iris 
There's hardly the fleetingest flicker of real life

But somewhere there's someone who'll make you feel something new
And someday ain't something 
That you can keep waiting for 

They all say they're aching for sunshine
Then draw the shades
Box up their hearts in a cube
squirrel and square them away,
Oh, for "someday"
And say the guilt, regret, and the pining
Are just traits of the juvenile 
Man, face it, the world ain't your
Dream-addled, doe-eyed way

But somewhere there's someone who'll make you feel something...

Tiny Violins