| 1. Christians And Lions - Gimme Diction |
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It's like some overbearing tax on praxis; how I'm supposed to feel bad for this when all I've sworn to do is hold soul like a cold in haunted...
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| 2. Christians And Lions - Bones |
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Over the tracks, with a sack full of matches, I'm gonna burn all the letters I've wrote. Don't worry, darling, I ain't brave enough to catch it, this...
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| 3. Christians And Lions - Skinny Fists |
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Blue smoke and cider sounds curled above our heads like tongues of fire under wires in a big City Hall stands tall and every pregnant pause is giving...
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| 4. Christians And Lions - Firebelly Salamander |
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"Mother, your little boy's dying at the gates, with a mace and a longbow arrow lodged firm in his breastplate. Isn't there something we should do?"...
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| 5. Christians And Lions - Free Radio Post-apocalyptic Metropolis Blues |
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Thanks to theorist Helene Cixous for the phrase "Because changing I" Between the wars they come to hox us in the stable, so why am I holding this...
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| 6. Christians And Lions - Tender Sparks (october And Over) |
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October and over. There’s never enough words for my throat. So cold in the root cellar suburbs. Low in the lowlight, and high on tender sparks....
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| 7. Christians And Lions - A Root's Grave Is Above Ground |
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Each year my hands look more like my father's: scars of a yesterday, but palms up to tomorrows, knuckles dug in rusted earth to loose the saplings....
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| 8. Christians And Lions - Stay Warm |
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So we built burning cities at the top of our notes, now we doubt our commitment to God and Country or Job and Comp'ny. Though no one wants to break...
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| 9. Christians And Lions - Landing |
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Like a block party with smoke. Little godspittle showers the hair on our arms. My hair still smells like burning church. I know folks brought under...
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| 10. Christians And Lions - Some Trees |
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Hitting and missing, (mostly missing,) I sit kissing where your face was an hour before. Both spell disaster with some kind of far-off capital L. But...
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| 11. Christians And Lions - Sexton Under Glass |
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I've got this frozen virus in my blood, like my words are the warmest I could ever touch. I'll limp west with the sun and sleep the days under...
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| 12. Christians And Lions - We Fall And Get Up |
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I keep names and emotions in my teeth when I can't take the blistering heat on my tongue. Often it seems they never cool. Often, it seems, they never...
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