- Erl King
Guten Nacht
I'll be dead before dawn
Kind, mein Sohn
I'll be dead before dawn
And though your eyes appear wry and withdrawn
I'll be dead before dawn
I'll be dead before dawn
- Goldfish and Metermaids
the old man waves at nothing
and i sit at the window
with my legs closed
glory lost
hide your lesioned body
hide your ragged clothes
your rivers of restored swords
goldfish and metermaids
- Sinai
You came tumbling outwards across the bedsheets
across our mother's bruised, bloodroot thighs,
while I gathered courage inside the omphalos,
too crooked and sorry to move
You came tumbling and I was sorry,
avoiding the knife and the guilt of a wound
You came tumbling and I was sorry
- Tasseomancy
shackles for bones
a clover for a better pair of clothes
in the kitchen, she would read the tea leaves
to understand the faithful hand of god
shtetl-skinned and rosewood eyes
an 18-year-old orphan bride
a luckless man was made to fight
- Tear Tassle Ogre Heart
And I know that you have an awfully big
wound in your stomach
and I wish, my dear brother,
I could be god and mend it
But god I trace your guts
and wear them as a beauty mark
tear tassel ogre heart
- Vampires of the West Coast
Last evening I fell for a vampire
With brooding black circles
a bleeding young liver
Beautiful body of mortar and bile
With lovely grey eyelids that long to retire
Dreams of an old room
with white plaster windows