The coast is never clear / Answers always beyond our reach / And though it’s not my way won’t you help me try / Let’s make jam when life gives us a peach / If it’s true / I don’t mind / There’s a million other things that keep me up at night / Maybe [...]

Long about an hour before sunrise she drags his body down to the edge of the swollen river wrapped in a red velvet curtain stolen from the movie theater where she works. Quiet as a whisper, under the stanchions of a washed-out bridge she cuts him loose…and watches as the flood waters spin him around [...]

If I was where I would be / Then I would be where I am not / Here I am where I must be / Where I would, I can not / When I first came to town / They brought me drinks plenty / Now they’ve changed their tune / They bring me the [...]