Why do I always turn to
fear
calling at you
Why am I so cross?
[Re-sound] by [Cinnober]
Lumbering across oceans, time, and languages, up the stone path between the bare twin trees dressed in cantillating fowl, my obligations have come begging for my attention. They have pushed through the fog of my memories and into the swinging hinged slot …
Give it to me, love
I'll keep you in my focus
with love and affection
[Love, Love, Love (Love, Love)] by [As Tall As Lions]
No matter how potent the safety of black-and-white truths are to me, I can never discount the Technicolor symbols in the stories I tell myself while asleep. I exist somewhere between the comfort of …
Like a shoe needs another
like a book needs a cover to get by
we’ll get by through loopholes with love
[Through Loopholes with Love] by [Moi Caprice]
The night that Daniel told me he was in love with me, I was preparing to escape civilization for awhile. I was headed for a long weekend at [Hug Point] beach, …
The violets explode inside me
when I meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and I'm diving
Like a cloud of starlings
Darling is this love?
[Starlings] by [Elbow]
Forever we are embroiled in attempts to find that elusive optimal level of arousal. We drink caffeine to break through a malaise, and take drugs to mellow out life's ire. We seek thrills …
Now my pokerface delight
Is red alert
In the safe tomorrow sun
[Safe Tomorrow Sun] by [Surrounded]
Today I thought I saw Daniel in the window of a pub on Copenhagen's [pedestrian street]. It turned out to be the same one Daniel and I had escaped into years ago during a slicing rain. Very strange to have walked this …
Step right up you're the next contestant
In this sweet charade
Take a number, wait while I twist your fate
[The Mating Game] by [Bitter:Sweet]
The late afternoon sky is the color of light turquoise streaked with arrows of dark brown starlings and cloud wisps. It is framed square in the ceiling above my bed where I lie swelling …
Don’t wait in the last light and the warmth of the winter sun
Don’t get caught out with the temperature going down
[Grave's Disease] by [Matt Pond PA]
I hadn't thought anything would come of it. Committing myself to romance with an unemployed creative was a farcical, eye-rolling impracticality. It played out like a wildly imaginative scenario from …
Our little hearts have turned to stone
I'd better be happy alone
[Happy Alone] by [Earlimart]
My enlightenment was set in motion on July 5, 1993 during a fracas in which I was left an amputee. Not a limb, only the tip of a digit. Left hand, middle finger. It was the day before my 23rd birthday. Without …
And good things come to those who wait,
But drugs are quick, and cheap, and safe
Most days you rather waste away
[Broken Signals] by the [The Mugs]
It is late October, almost six years to the day since the last time I lived in the Kingdom of Denmark. I have been here three sky-drizzling days. I am not …
What's the point in staying the same
Regrets, forget what's dead and gone
If you could rewind your time
Would you change your life?
[Rewind] by [Stereophonics]
The plane ride to Denmark from my home in Oregon was just as excruciatingly long as I remember, only this time instead of arriving alert and composed and ready to give myself away …