In nightmares I am alive Such a terrible fragility I can’t remember now How I stood that pain— How sweet was your rescue

Everyone thinks that I have gone… They also keep their distance from… They say that love has paralyzed m… Nonsense. I knew he left to meet… I saw his death in battle in a dre…

Knitting sitting where the necklaces fall gathering up the shiny things to g… who bite them hoping for sugar

With what wonder did I behold the… Alone outdoors and sleeping in a b… Far from the town. Deep in the fo… with other refuse in a nest of roc… and kept from crawling forth by se…

I chew wild ginger root when insec… When summer’s at its fiercest and… I feel the heat in every vein and… I feel the summer pounding at my b… I watch its glory setting in the w…

It seems I am a most unwelcome gu… I know that since I came you’ve b… Come, tell me what you do when hap… What music do you play, what drugs… Oh yes, I know, though you are se…

A predator in tie and tails The sea of matrimony sails But sails Alone. When asked where is your better ha…

No sooner has the sun gone down When I awake and go to town. Since vampires bit me where I lay I have to go to bed by day. I wander round while others sleep.

There will be a lad in Xereen who will posit the first time mach… I’ll never forget though he wasn’t born yet how he landed it in our latrine

My bed is like a little brig; Nurse locks me in at night; Wraps me around in itchy wool And takes away the light. The night’s an inky scary blot

So you’re a witch, the lady said this was a lie my children told and I enjoyed I bobbed my head and in a teasing voice I said

Two roads diverged in a horrid woo… and sorry I was to be there at all… Two roads, night fallen, there I… (would it have been thus if I’d be… under a thunder clouded pall.

It’s a lovely gloomy day. Come, my dear, come out and play. The shadows gather on the lawn And whisper that the sun is gone And never will come back.

I asked my love to hold my hand. My love was not afraid. I heard the steady pattering sound His stoutly true heart made. I gave my love a gentle kiss.