“Now Close the Windows”
“Who has the most matches?”
“tanglewood in blue”
miles to go
“The problem with life is that it’s too daily.”
The Calling
“open tuning (august, 1981)”
Mindfulness
Tender is the night… but here there is no light
We gotta get right back to where we started from
“doppelgänger”
Zeno In Love
Astrophil and Stella 71: Bad Time
Pretzel Logic
I come in last night about half past ten…
“I’ve long wanted to ask you one thing.”
Lost Summer
But, soft! what light through yonder trolley tunnel breaks?
The Myth Of Sisyphus
1985
Say Yeah
A Modern Aeneid
Sure (Ulysses)
Vanity Fair
Mother’s Day
Meanwhile across town…
“In Time of Storm”
impressionism
“winter”
I met her on the strip. It was another lost weekend.
reverie
Call me Ishmael.
storm
pianoforte
Ode to a Nightingale
“nocturne”
Inebriate of air am I
“the bends”
This is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind.
-6℉ of Separation
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A Game of Chess
As You Like It
Who is it that can tell me who I am?
[Algernon is rather taken aback.]
Straight Ahead
More Light
I Want To Be Your Man
“On First Looking Into Greene’s Chord Chemistry”
“The Year Of Living Collinsly (1985)”
CHAPTER 2
WIP: “Right Back” Demo (Backing Tracks)
Barter
From Dawn To Dusk
“simultaneity”
Hyperion Summer
Into The Fire
Saving Grace
Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
CHAPTER I: Arrival
I’m out here in the meadow
ACT 2, SCENE 1: A wood near Athens.
“a closed book”
“The Strayed Poet” (for R.L.B.)
I Want You Back
“back issue (june, 1981)”
They Shut Me Up In Prose
Wallflower
Give All To Love
Loomings
“returner”
ACT I, SCENE II: A café near the Duke’s palace.
The Atomic Age
Renaissance
Mirage
April is the cruellest month
Livin’ It Up
“fluorescence”
“Once Again To Zelda”
“errata”
Aaron Copland invents the sound of pop music
For Guy
The Voice
Watermark
“There’s the thrush again…”
I’m with you
After you go I’ll have a lot more room in my closet
Love Won’t Let Me Wait
A Voice of One’s Own
“What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman…”
Love For Sale
“ricorro al tempo ch’ i’ vi vidi prima…”
Summer of 1977
How to Regain Your Soul
A Turning Point
Chapter 56: In which our hero falls into a nostalgic reverie…
“Attention Shoppers…”
accompagnato
“This above all: to thine own self be true”
Having it Out with Melancholy
On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye
Astrophil and Stella
antediluvian (august, 1986)
“and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well…”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on…”
Birches
“Pour on. I will endure.”
Chapter 18: In which our hero walks aimlessly around town on a rainy summer evening with a heart full of despondency and ennui…
Crazy Over You
Lux Aeterna
Portrait Of A Woman Painting
At The Food Fair
Part One: Life
Another Lycidas
Presence
Higher Education
Self-Reliance
Journal, Page 1: Walt Whitman
Starry Night
Part III: It is the autumnal mood with a difference.
“With me?” I said, “With me?”
Take Your Whiskey Home
Time Regained (Again)
You Got Me Workin’ Day And Night
Hold the line! Love isn’t always on time.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” Remix by John Sapiro
“Keats, walk a hundred yards over the rim”
Love on the line, it’s now or never.
“Like a sick eagle looking at the sky.”
ACT I, SCENE I: Verona. A public place.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Hyperion
Chapter 6: Changes
He’s A Mover
The Way You Look Tonight
Here in the bar the piano man’s found another nail for my heart
“At The College Art Gallery, October, 1981”
Dream Sequence
But when I face the light somehow it all seems right
“You must tell me something that you are sure is true”
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself…”
Panic Station
Through The Fire
Why don’t we steal away into the night?
In France They Kiss On Main Street
Charlotte’s Web
I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
