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No. 1
I Am You
Imagine I was right there with you
No. 2
Cyclone
One day you'll stand on the ledge of a rooftop
No. 3
Forcefield
One day you'll meet a person
No. 4
You Are Magic
Imagine a crystal vase
No. 5
Right There Waiting
One day, when you're six years old
No. 6
So Slip Away
It's okay to
No. 7
Float and Pop
What if you got so good at lying
No. 8
You Will Achieve
One beautiful early fall day
No. 9
Monsters
The surface of the giant lake before you
No. 10
One Word, One Coin. Silence, Two.
Sometimes, you just have to
No. 11
You're Such a Beautiful Child
One day you'll watch
No. 12
Those Wounds Stung
There will come a time
No. 13
Blue Leather
You look down
No. 14
Striped with Life
I watched you with a 4-crayon pack,
No. 15
Flickering Eyes
When you leave home for the first time,
No. 16
A Brooklyn Bath
Yesterday, through my translucent looking glass
No. 17
You Won't Always
Treasure the time you have on stage,
No. 18
Nights, Years
Nights, years—nights, years—
No. 19
The Greatest Party
The blank, beige canvas stands before you—
No. 20
Run Too Deep
One day, you'll watch a friend receive
No. 21
Sublimated Abstraction
Each pivotal moment,
No. 22
The Phantom Ride
Don't pause, don't interrupt the flow
No. 23
Your Warm Breath
There's something you will do,
No. 24
Recognition
You see the shadow of the
No. 25
The Shadow Dance
Shut your eyes when you know
No. 26
Tangled Up Inside
It's not someone else's job
No. 27
The Real Test
The real test will come
No. 28
Take My Hand
You don't yet know me, but I know
No. 29
The Messenger
One day, you'll discover a way to
No. 30
The Man in the Black Cowboy Hat
The truth of certain words
No. 31
Poison
Don't let your power of choice
No. 32
Boundless
Know that it's coming:
No. 33
Black Light Glow
One day you'll echo the never-ending
No. 34
Syncopate
Listen closely to
No. 35
The Touch You Missed
The absence of a guiding hand,
No. 36
Crossfade
Cherish the click.
No. 37
Bedtime Lullaby
You never yearned to hear
No. 38
The Palace of Imagination
The flame begins to burn
No. 39
The Hoarder
There are so many reasons.
No. 40
The Calculated Leap
Remember the vision
No. 41
The Peak
Imagine compassion built from the
No. 42
Bathed in Light
Don't let the thing you needed most,
No. 43
Sheathe
Think deeply before you
No. 44
Sunburn
The times you were held
No. 45
Gemini
A thousand fun-house mirrors arrayed
No. 46
Unassigned
The underground snake-ship,
No. 47
Too Tight, Too Loose
The jacket you wore all last
No. 48
The Chinatown Bus
The long coupon bus rides
No. 49
The Invisible Hand
How can you enhance the vision of
No. 50
Brooklyn Canvas
You'll never forget when you feel magic.
No. 51
Hallway Maze
Can you arrange the blocks
No. 52
Thrumming
Notice the tremors in your
No. 53
Blown Glass
How does it look through
No. 54
The Steps
I'm sorry I never spoke to you on the steps.
No. 55
Gumdrop
What force draws you back to walk
No. 56
Sing
All the times you felt the music stir
No. 57
Kite Ride
Remember when you
No. 59
Dark Side
One day you'll wake up from a
No. 60
Dream Catcher
The Walkman on the long rides throughout
No. 61
In Equal Parts
Sleeping on the couch in the old house
No. 62
Stare Down
Sometimes the screams grow so loud
No. 63
Don't Choke
I want to see you after you practice for
No. 65
The Next Trick
The energy you spent dismissing
No. 66
Ding-Dong
Imagine you could watch
No. 67
Hunger
She appeared like a sparkling shimmer
No. 70
The Instrument
You understood the sound of
No. 71
The Soft Brush
How special it is when you find the
No. 73
Ghost Light
You jumped the fence
No. 74
Touch the Cloud
Butterflies and secret sparks
No. 75
Transfixion
She disappeared down the hallway,
No. 77
Learn One Day
To even think that I could teach you,
No. 79
Unsheathe
When you hear the piercing cry for help
No. 81
Cyclone Prophecy
What you didn't have—
No. 83
A Minute
You can't grasp what you'd most wish.
No. 84
The Dive
The pull of return from the
No. 86
Scorched Erasure
The escape with no roadmap
No. 87
Marginalia
It's the words scrawled past the margins
No. 88
The Driver
How'd you know the echo of colors
No. 89
Override
When the clouds wash off your face
No. 90
Take That Fucking Mirror Down
Each of the freeze-frames of your worst
No. 91
Wind off the Hudson
Please don't take away the early mornings
No. 92
Redirect
Ribbons unfurl and dance across
No. 93
Tapestry
The mazes you drew in red and orange
No. 95
Childhood Bedroom
You'll be taken back one day
No. 97
Swan Lake
To dance beneath the moonlight
No. 98
She'll Forget
One day, on a corner, waiting for the light to change,
No. 99
Recapture
The shadow of a dark cloud you felt
No. 100
The Ghosts
The bars, the windows,
No. 101
Infinity
One summer night, you'll glimpse infinity.
No. 102
Off the Avenue
Oh, how I wished I could have been driving
No. 103
Disrupt
There may be days
No. 104
Look
The high-pitched call
No. 105
One Kid Read This
I wish I could have warned you.
No. 106
The Flawless Silhouette
You don't have to lie.
No. 107
The Champagne Ship
The champagne ship sailed through the night
No. 108
Alchemy
The unexpected voice only sounds familiar
No. 109
Taste the Rain
Only by stripping the partial shrouds
No. 110
Bougainvillea
I watched her hair catch fire
No. 111
I Still Wish
On the steps outside of music class
No. 112
The dream
The plan and execution—
No. 113
Lightning Bug
I wish I could cup your tiny hands
No. 114
She wrote
She wrote
No. 115
Access Revoked
A girl skipped a stone across a crystal lake,
No. 116
The Dragon's Neck
You never needed to have a voice
No. 117
Hold fast the ether
We met across the oval,
No. 118
The Yellow Sony Brick
The underground rush
No. 119
I forgot to close your eyes
Close your eyes, and listen to the songs
No. 120
Reunion
A dark late-spring night
No. 121
Neo-Noir
The unexpected perfect sentence
No. 122
and the land is dark
I am with you.
No. 123
Waiting for you
It's been far too long since I've seen your face.
No. 126
Magnetize
Let's ride the 9 with
No. 127
Separated by sky and time
Separated by sky and time
No. 128
The Game With No Memory
The first question, as you fell asleep,
No. 130
Name Tag
I waited for you, and finally you picked me up
No. 132
Franklin to 96th
I remember
The poems, spoken.
You Won't Always
32s
Flickering Eyes
50s
Nights, Years
43s
The Greatest Party
48s
Brooklyn Canvas
39s
The Calculated Leap
29s
The Real Test
36s
One Word, One Coin. Silence, Two.
22s
I Am You
30s
Sing
33s
Dark Side
19s
Bathed in Light
22s
Lightning Bug
28s
The dream
48s
The Champagne Ship
2:34
She wrote
46s
Reunion
2:59
She wrote
40s
Magnetize
24s
You're Such a Beautiful Child
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