First Line Index
A
- A garish Fall—
- A train clacks through darkness
- After the cold cruelty
- Always enthralled by the original, the profound, the difficult,
- Always the mediocre girl, almost ugly
- An old black door
- Are you naturally gorgeous
- As leaves dry and die
B
- Brain flares, shrill voices
- Burn ‘em
C
- Cockroaches and beetles
D
- Don’t talk to me of love, liar
E
- Each of us is dedicated
- Early sunny air
F
- Fighters aren’t always pretty
- First the mast broke—
- Fog of the childish mind
- Forged narratives, collages, corruptions
G
- “Go ahead then—tell it
- Grief is the pain we pay for love
H
- Harsh sunlight makes me sadder
- He follows a colorless highway
- He retreats to that place
- He wakes at night, squints
- He’s an old lion
- Her apartment is decorated with dry dead flowers
- Her empty words are thought to carry weight
- Her face is in my dreams again
- Her skeletal face
- Her smell is in my nostrils–
I
- "I did not know the necessity.
- I had never met Watson, certainly never knew him
- I lived in grey shadows
- I’m no Donny Q
- If he never breaks bread alone
- If I could hold death in my hands
- If it happens to everyone...
- In the musty brown liquor shop
- In the very middle of winter
- In the waiting room, Room 239,
- In this fiery world
- In this game, you only lose
- In this idyllic scene
- In this soft twilight place
- It was about 4 months ago
- It would be easy to assassinate me
J
- Just because this cruel sick world
L
- Love has no beginning
- Love has no mother, no father...
M
- Matt died today
- Matt gambled, everyday—for him
- Mine is a winterish soul
- Misty night mountain,
- Mostly, I don’t find it
- “Move on”
- My father in shadow
O
- Oblique corridors
- Of course, there are fierce wars
- Only through the deepest, dank dark
- Out of balance, balance
P
- Planning is essential
- Presently wolfish
Q
- Querulous, discontented days…no tears,
R
- Reopened wounds
S
- She appears, disappears
- She hated solitude and wouldn’t retreat
- She quietly blazed
- She speaks in pungent slang
- She stands in front of the waves
- She uses her arm to push him violently away
- She wants to drive her motorcycle
- So this is how it ends
- Some things...
- Something dies beneath
- Spider spins webs of delight
- Stars fade into dawn
T
- The flag is unfurled
- The forgotten city sleeps
- The ideal is unyielding melody,
- The pattern’s broken
- The steps are white marble, marble plate
- The sun retreats behind these mountains
- The toxic Spring sky
- There’s persons worse insulted than you
- These days it is usual
- They must cause
- They say the Gypsies know my future
- Things happened before life—
- This is a language I no longer speak—
- This is no world for the sensitive
- This love’s gone viral –
- This plain old room
- This sad, classic world
- This time of year
- Time rips all masks—
W
- We are encased in our own minds
- We don’t know where we are when
- We forge rivers through winter snow melt,
- We love freedom for its own sake,
- We yearn for each other
- What gets you through the night?
- Whatever she feels,
- When a little over seven,
- When I closed my eyes
- “Where did you go?”
- While I was lifting weights
- Wild apples rose at dawn
Y
- You deserted me
- You held that fine jewel
- You know Gary,
- You look at her portrait and think