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FADING EYES DESERT DWELLER

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Fading Eyes Desert Dweller, the sun stuck in your fading eyes As night collects around your feet, you pin the planets to the sky Shadow hounds howl dial tones Siren cross the swollen sea Awaken dreams deep in the bones Yawning like an ancient tree Stick figures run free Fading Eyes Desert Dweller, when the day transitions into dusk All the fires drop dead from dancing, your word crackles like cicada husks Horizon line Curves your spine Sip like wine Cold moonshine Fading Eyes Desert Dweller, as the planet passes round your shoes A lifetime of faded photos, colored in the haziest hues

SANTA CLAUS BELIEVES IN YOU

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If you feel your life needs proof, Santa Claus believes in you Santa Claus and his reindeer will sweep away your fist-shaped tears You feel you just can’t make it through, but Santa Claus believes in you Yes, Santa Claus believes in you When you feel that you’ve been othered A purple crayon in peanut butter Drown their hate with floods of applause A standing O from Santa Claus If you feel your life needs proof, Santa Claus believes in you Santa Claus and his reindeer will sweep away your fist-shaped tears You feel you just can’t make it through, but Santa Claus believes in you In the dark, in the snow A shining breath exhales a glow Shadow teeth in hate-stained jaws Fade in the light of Santa Claus If you feel your life needs proof, Santa Claus believes in you Santa Claus and his reindeer will sweep away your fist-shaped tears You feel you just can’t make it through, but Santa Claus believes in you If they can't handle the truth, Santa Claus b

SLO MO SHINE

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Running like a bathtub down the contours of your smile Hang up your skeleton and stay here for a while Constellate the candles til the flames fully align Kick up your jams and join me in my Slo Mo Shine From the depths of a sci-fi screenplay you rise With elevator sneakers and your scratch and sniff eyes Octopus of doubt, from his tentacles you shimmy out Running like a bathtub down the contours of your smile Hang up your skeleton and stay here for a while Constellate the candles til the flames fully align Kick up your jams and join me in my Slo Mo Shine Like an orchard frozen mid-photograph Thoughts allowed to flower full paragraph Apple sauce serenade, murmur through your head like a tin arcade Running like a bathtub down the contours of your smile Hang up your skeleton and stay here for a while Constellate the candles til the flames fully align Kick up your jams and join me in my Slo Mo Shine

OLIVE

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Olive buried under hair so curly Hunter’s arrow broke her bonds so surly The charm of a witch and an astronaut’s sadness Living in the egg whites of an atlas I’m bound to let you go Watch you float away like snow I’m bound to let you go Olive tumbles out from her martini The ground bananas and the sky is dreamy She floats until the seas are all puddles Birds sew themselves into blankets for cuddles I'm bound to let you go Watch you float away like snow I'm bound to let you go Olive’s smile dissipates in the mist Hitchhikes on a raincloud that it kissed I'm bound to let you go Watch you float away like snow I'm bound to let you go

ORANGEST CAT

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My cat is the Orangest Cat He’s so big but he ain’t fat He’s got six pockets for his stuff Don’t lie to him, he’ll call your bluff Orangest Cat went to the moon Came back in a pink balloon He gave us effervescent cheese Now we see everything in threes My cat is the Orangest Cat He’s so big but he ain’t fat His house made of twigs and awards His shower pours out power chords Orangest Cat smells like the bible His high-fives have effects quite tidal Your blood may taste of deep self-loathing He’ll wrap you in esteem trunk clothing My cat is the Orangest Cat He’s so big but he ain’t fat He walks the earth like he owns the place His mind an infinite staircase Orangest Cat, Orangest Cat Orangest Cat, Orangest Cat!

HARPO SPEAKS

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From among the clocks, you assemble like a bullfrog You’re a music box, paintings grooving to your tunes Smarter of the gods, silverware spills from your coat sleeves Mustache the facade, drinking whiskey with the moon Swimming beams of light, plucking songs out of the ocean Fireflies play the night, luminescent glissando From the shadows jaw, speaking paragraphs of silence Bathed in cinema, cosmic void sewn in your clothes As the air turns green, with a horse for a hotel room Whisper to my dream, sail away you crooked star

CRESTWOOD MONSTER FREAKOUT

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SPIRAL BOUND SUNSET

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Your shadow burst through the tree limbs Cloud halos dripping from your chin A constellation of cassettes Glow in the spiral bound sunset Melting in the heat of church pews Ghosts of teenagers miss curfew “We swim like dinosaurs,” she said Bathed in the spiral bound sunset Your parenthetical heartbreak From bunny ears to mouth of snake While others tell of loves long dead We toast the spiral bound sunset Darkening shine, between the lines Your kitchen pale face on the floor The ocean cannot find the shore Empty chest when you realize There is no spiral bound sunrise

ALLIGATOR PEAR

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Flower petals in your fingerprints, dropping like hints The facts you won’t evince Silver string sewn in your tongue and teeth, glimmer as you breathe Sparkling from under Neath the tough leather skin laid bare The green softness you’re afraid to share Say you’re made of stone but it’s clear you are an Alligator Pear Watch the sunset in a burning match, see a new day hatch See the moon detach Skeletoning everything concealed, reality unpeeled Truths finally re Vealed in a much more flattering glare Your inner core so full of love and care Say you’re made of stone but it’s clear you are an Alligator Pear Tryin’ not to reveal you’re An Alligator Pear

ECHO EYES

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There’s a skin to your absence, hard as a cactus, keeps me from moving away Feet sown to the floorboards, tongue in the sock drawer, my words all amorphous like clay Did you canyon your past, is it echoing back? Does it reverberate, or just excavate? In the night I can hear the moon singing for lovers dancing alone, Beating hearts, filling eyes with fog to be released from the ghost in your home Fall into your echo eyes Did you canyon your past, is it echoing back? In the grave in your eyes, phantoms starting to rise In the night I can hear the moon singing for lovers dancing alone, Beating hearts, filling eyes with fog to be released from the ghost in your home Fall into your echo eyes

DAYLIGHT MOON

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With a skull full of TV snow, dreams spill from my ears A blurred panorama prismed in my tears My heart like a hummingbird and belly of beer The ashes of memories stoked flames of my fears Oh, Daylight Moon You told me the story of the lonely lady Her eyes were pianos and her voice was the sea She lost herself in a storm of hyperbole Dandelion mist dance in snow globe jubilee  Oh, Daylight Moon On baby’s breath and kitten paws We squeeze our way past twilight’s jaws As truth slaps us in mock applause And time handcuffs our wrist

CHALLENGER DEEP

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In the backyard hideout, underneath the leaves, Whisper all our secrets, tuck them up our sleeves And it makes me nervous, ears a burning match, Hiccups skip my talking like a record scratch Where the sun won’t rend us in its judgy jaws, where the stars won’t point out all our shameful flaws We binge on emotion then explode our hearts, tape them back together and we call it art Green lime smirk and we’re shirking sleep, in the challenger deep When you’re a reverse rainbow, monochrome debris, feeling like a pear in a partridge tree Sinking in brown carpet, tangled in the shag, gravity and gravy dousing time to drag I will sing your anthems, I will set you free, I will shear your halo of uncertainty With a Velcro crackle we’ll reset the skies, fill the dull horizon with apricot sunrise Unzip dreams so that we can keep in the challenger deep Green lime smirk and we’re sleeping, in the challenger deep Unzip dreams that we’re keeping, in the challenger deep Secr

MY HAND’S AN ASTRONAUT

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Fall from your knee, tumbling free From a conjunctive summit Untethered frame, echoing name Resonating plummet My hand’s an astronaut, tears through a comet shot Swimming like leaves, draining from sleeves Into infinite azure Smiling like brass, captured in glass To suburbia pasture My hand’s an astronaut, some astral afterthought Trailing, flailing My hand’s an astronaut, occipital sunspot Scent of a dream, flows through bloodstream In the folds of October Quick rush of moon, sweet breath of swoon Intoxicatingly sober My hand’s an astronaut, these fingerprints are fraught Sailing, failing And last of all, before I fall Reach for your cheek

RUN-ON SENTIENCE

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PANGEA ULTIMA (SONG FOR SAM)

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With a rush of sand Hand bleeds into hand Land snapped into land  Every mountain of every range Every river of every sea Come together to disarrange And be free All the world in one place Margins gone, all erased Freckles flood the whole face Every mountain of every range Every highway and every road Come together to disarrange And to flow It’s a smashing consequence In a supercontinent Geologic providence In your eyes a glimmer See the light shimmer Pangea Ultima Every mountain of every range Every river of every sea Come together to disarrange And be free

SCRAMBLED EGGS

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Scrambled eggs, oh how I love your legs And how they bend at the knee Bones of glass, you are a fragile lass With will as strong as the sea Quiet as nuns, hymns coiled in lungs Snakes bursting forth out of shotguns Snug as a cat, beige as bath mat Disturbed rudely by cowboy hat Scrambled eggs, scissors in place of legs Slicing smooth through this song Submarine, deep inside a dream Memories all redrawn Fingernail moon, puncturing my cocoon Secrets spill out like black balloons Werewolf shame, no sheep to blame Not even Ferris wheel to tame Scrambled eggs, something about your legs Part of a balanced breakfast With teeth in hand, straighten my ampersand Snuff out all to the preface Shadows with wings, feelings with skin Tangled in busted guitar strings It’s all just eggs, just scrambled eggs All I’ve got left is scrambled eggs

TURKISH STAR WARS

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Because the rain fell cursively your face smudged like a love note Beat up by waves of white noise drowned in calm without a lifeboat Stiff upper kitchen chair, souls spiral up from mugs of coffee Without a point of view you feel just like a horseless jockey Moon slices up the mountain, serves it up like upside down cake Downstairs I dictionary up my nose until I earthquake Shove secret centuries in kitchen corners and old sock drawers Pick up the phone and on the other line is Turkish Star Wars Orphaned tarantula scurries along suburban sidewalk Pendulum can’t upset the obstinate grandfather clock Your birth certificate is printed on the sunrise pink clouds These inert history books are drained of everything but nouns Because the snow accumulates inside your empty eyelid Map collapses into itself, spits states into beehive dream grid These seeds are helicopters chopping logs along sunken shores Flip to the index see the entry labeled Turkish Star Wars Time laps

LUMINOUS

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In your face I see my wish, swimming like a jellyfish Gliding through your smiling eyes, captured in the twilight skies Ooooh… Ingrown feelings fumbling, through beauty that is humbling Open doors and stolen keys, head among the tops of trees Dreaming of feeling Lost in the stars tonight, swimming in lush starlight Luminous beings are we, radiant jubilee Fog-breath morning, lamp lit dawn, three deer stand calm on the lawn My apprehensions all dispensed, in the courage of their innocence Growing and floating Lost in the stars tonight, swimming in lush starlight Luminous beings are we, boundless and beaming free Lost in the stars tonight, swimming in lush starlight Luminous beings are we, radiant jubilee Lost in the stars tonight, swimming in lush starlight Luminous beings are we, boundless and beaming free Turtle dusts the room with stars, whisper secrets into jars Midnight hair in shimmery sleep