| 1. Christine Fellows - Bright Blue Flame |
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Who's fallen face down just inches from an ashtray- just inches from a bright blue flame. if you could lift your head you'd be laughing. a vision...
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| 2. Christine Fellows - Veda's Waltz |
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First you shake it then you tear it apart. Feed it fearful of hope and despair. Then you starve it and you leave it alone. 'Til all your impressions...
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| 3. Christine Fellows - A Day In The Road |
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Raise your hand if you do what you're told. Collared and disarmed. You're an accompliace don't you know. Screaming in your ears for all eternity to...
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| 4. Christine Fellows - Roadkill |
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Be sure to cover my eyes when we round that corner where we stood just inside the lines one long goodbye ago. one backward glance. bloody roadkill...
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| 5. Christine Fellows - Lost Overtures |
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What's too true about those words that you knew that you'd never right quite right. What's too clear, too simple, too near, makes you lay awake all...
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| 6. Christine Fellows - 2 Little Birds |
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Two little birds out the corner of my eye. gotta get me one. gotta get me one. just to look at you. my poor heart wrenches inside out. i'm stranded....
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| 7. Christine Fellows - Cowboy |
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Wears his chin down very low. lower than i'll ever know. he's outside throwing his heart up in the snow. been a long time coming and i guess it had...
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| 8. Christine Fellows - Regrets |
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I was only seventeen. Hauling frantically on the back of a matchbook. I don't think that I could've looked in you in the eye. So fearful of what I...
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| 9. Christine Fellows - Seconds After |
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Don't think twice. You're as bottomless as the sky. As terrified or falling still, at least you're here with me. A sad day is as honest as it is...
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| 10. Christine Fellows - Advice |
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Don't trip when your legs snap like pencil lead. don't spit when your teeth fall like hail. don't stutter when your heart skips like the beating of...
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| 11. Christine Fellows - Blueprints |
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Concrete buckles, cobwebs bloom. While angles hold their breath. In backyards, buckers overturned, under picnic-grey skies. Determined to remain. To...
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| 12. Christine Fellows - Red Letter Day |
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I should never tell a lie. suits me like a bright red letter day. five chances in a million to where you were. i should never tell a lie. catches in...
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| 13. Christine Fellows - Boy On The Cover |
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I'd swear that there's wings sprouting out from your bird-boned shoulders. great big doe eyes that curl your toes. lean in closer. there's a...
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| 14. Christine Fellows - Surprise! |
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Yellow eyes. Yellow moon. Distract me till the dawn. Trace my lips. Search my brow for any others you might find. Surprise. Didn't know you had it...
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| 15. Christine Fellows - Trust |
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The first night. Only windows. All thrown open am I. One last look is all it took to give it a name: falling. I fall in your arms when your head is...
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| 16. Christine Fellows - 20 Bullets |
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Bang bang you're dead. 20 bullets in your head. that's not pretty, that's what i saw. missing the beauty of it all. hey you. what's your name?...
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| 17. Christine Fellows - 2 For 1 (part 2) |
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Is there room in here for me. It seems so bright and complicated. I wake from dreams so stark and still. I can't believe the daylight. So put my...
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| 18. Christine Fellows - Small Change |
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Small change. pocketfuls of fingers and scraps and some very good reasons. small days. every split second. 'til thirty years ago when i ran out...
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| 19. Christine Fellows - Ruthless |
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Clothesline me almost dry. these broken arms want to hang on ropes and rocks and shouldering the blows. replace you and your body. these big strong...
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