1. |
Pangea
05:17
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seven 8.19’s
when all I could wish was you teasing me
numbers we crossed are echoing like tree frogs
denying the frost
wide-eyed for all your cerebrum will dream of
seven stems of green
cut and arranged chronologically
for each year I loved you and didn't buy you flowers
for wanting the moon and the truffula trees
when you just wanted me
seven shapes all lain
alone in my body with you between
my drawered origami your snoring swain upriver
you know the difference
I know he isn’t your hometown boy
seven-letter key
a Civil War beauty with two big teeth
means shyness and longing and loyalty and you dear
and opens the ocean
I thought there were two once
you are the ocean
seven sinking continents in one
if we sleep separately
we risk waking up with the Tethys Sea between us
if it’s the end of Pangea, I want to spend it with you around me,
describe every species in our hometown, sing
“let this sleepy omnivore love you the way he has evolved to love you only”
only you
when I see you see me
everything's right
so suddenly
and I can't wish for anything
except maybe my hands
on both of your wings
maybe your cheek
where it belongs on me my love
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2. |
Dad's New '92 Acura
04:21
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Dad’s new ‘92 Acura was born between the two of us
we turned into sons and it turned into a time machine
and Dad’s asleep in the passenger’s
a mandolin string moon has come up
one last song of light that turns into the two of us and
two-hundred miles to Baltimore County
one for the drive and two for the dreaming
midnight in Baltimore County
one for the drive, one for the drive
Mom’s new red and white running shoes
a gentle little wolf pursues
we turn into hers as she turns into the terminal
and Mom hugs her little passengers
the barred owl laughs we have from her
rings of summer rain she turned into the two of us
two-hundred miles to Baltimore County
one for the drive and two for the dreaming
midnight in Baltimore County
one for the drive, one for the night in
our old room with the curtains dancing as they danced
as every doorway shrank to half its size and we didn’t notice
one for the drive to our old school
left the headlights on the backboard
and missed and missed and made some
till the quiet when we pulled in and home was home again
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3. |
Happy Good Night
03:57
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“happy first snow of the year”
any excuse to have my name appear in your hands
happy, looking out the window
big flakes of gold
falling through the glow surrounding
you and I and the pigeons
and the bridges hung with moons tonight
and every night since I noticed
happy, walking on my hands
too many steps, my kitten confidence in your hands
happy when you asked what happened
a drop of blood, a tear of happiness, a day of knowing you
and I and the pigeons
and the bridges hung with moons tonight
and every night since I know you
“happy good night”
a friend of mine
wished me with carnations in her hands
happy, home with her advice
“my love you won’t read her mind.
it’s hers alone to read”
and holding your name in my hands
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4. |
One More Rose
04:30
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one more rose
for the window you kept open
in case I came home too late
and you were sleeping
feed Kharaa like he’s my own
my one way left to love you
when all I wanted was to be your animal
one more rose
for the weekdays we made golden
discovered flavors made love trees below
until that night, ever so, you unwrapped me from your body
when all I wanted was to feel you laugh again
one more rose
for my poems trapped in your mailbox
your lost scroll
the truth stuck in our throats
a shoebox for the rest
one day my daughter finds it
my fool’s hope she knows your alphabet
and every evening walk away
long leg prince of pelvic pain
and look for the creature I’m keeping alive
so I can tell both of us that he looked alright
every evening walk away
long leg prince of pelvic pain
and look for the creature I’m keeping alive
and I saw him just one time
and look for the creature I’m keeping alive
long leg prince of pelvic pain
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5. |
Rowboat
01:17
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can I have the pleasure of you on my mind
in the morning or the moonlight
I can’t keep up with lightning
stand up straight, hope you find me
I bought a rowboat for crossing your mind
when it’s altered by the moonlight
wine and three nights left in Paris
did you notice me staring
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6. |
Amara
04:53
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last time I was a boy
looking for some long hair to hide in
today I think I caught you typing
your name
too pretty to replace
too dangerous to sing
summer, till the movie ends
then shake out our branches
don’t look now only your hand in my hoodie ‘cause this one scares you
blue light bouncing off your hockey scar
hold me rare animal
drive around Massachusetts
all the towns I could love with you
this time I am my own kind of man
and you are the woman I pretend to be cooking for
but I see the shade of the sea
the lonely birches
through a web of your cursive
slept with some help from a melted thrown away globe
and skipped every other step up the stairs to your room
holding your hand-sized shoes
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7. |
Only Kids In The Theater
05:31
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we’re the only kids in the theater
you’re the only you in the Milky Way
you’re so pretty pressed beside me
got me crying at the beginning baby
we’re queen and king in the theater
we can sit in any seat we like
tell each other what we’re thinking
kiss each other in the dancing light
baby we could stay in the theater
stay till we can recite the lines
baby you can sleep in my arms
till your ride home is a mile high, my angel
I don’t know when
but I will reach you dear
before the lilies bloom
there are no stars here
I’ll find my way to you
without them
Hier sind keine Sterne
ich finde meinen Weg zu dir auch ohne
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8. |
South Station
04:49
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ever since we took
turns in the cathedral
your necklaces of gold
thread the earth between us
I miss the sounds you speak
the way you wear the evening
and all that’s underneath
all I ever needed
half an hour
time before the night
falls slow into
the river and pulls us out a while
tonight, the Rhine is its highest
and I've got a sinful hunger
for your love
South Station blues
seagulls in the twilight
dreaming of your loveliness
and wishing we were fighting right now
and then, rip off our disguises
and do what we’ve been
waiting all July to do to each other
tonight, the moon is on fire
and I've got a pure desire for your love
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9. |
Great Blue Hill
02:38
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honey
you have my star
don’t you worry
it’s just one more in your sky
you’ll forget it’s mine
but if you miss me
it will fall down slow
I’ll meet you where it falls
Big Dipper looks close as hell
could scoop you up from Great Blue Hill
handle high above the pines
where I cried my eyes out
held out my hand for you
you trusted me to pick you up
I’d carry you down Great Blue Hill
if that’s what you wanted
honey
you have my star
don’t worry
it’s just one more in your sky
you’ll forget it’s mine
but if you miss me
it will fall down slow
I’ll meet you where it falls
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