Tara Ewer: Favorites

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

JG

See me now.
Remember when?
Take it back?
Take it, then.

Who are you?
I wouldn't know.
Went by too fast?
Goodbyes are slow.

Let me tell you
Exactly why
Have the answers?
Neither do I.

Hate me now?
That's up to you.
Emotionless?
I miss you too.

Take a walk
Down memory lane.
Hide your smile?
Or hide your pain?

Second chance?
Just one heart
Can't hear you now.
Too far apart.

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

People are Hanged, Pictures are Hung

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

Max Rutherford

People are Hanged, Pictures are Hung

I was young and they was old
When they hung Daddy
by the swimming hole

They came with dogs and guns and fire
And used the rope that held the tire
My mother wouldn't let me see
The night my Daddy climbed the tree

And now I'm old and they are young
The times have changed but hate is strong
It's like a **** or pestilence
That leaves you beaten on a fence

And when your life is finally thinned
Your only company is the wind
The violators in their beds
Not one regret lives in their heads

And even now when I am old
There still swings Daddy
by the swimming hole

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

Take that mask off

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

Odi

Take that mask off

He said you had the eyes of an insomniac
And hands that shake like they're looking for some unfathomable answer

                                                                                                            Searching, restless, uneasy.
You make no eye contact because no one looks back quite the same
Their eyes are like your hands
                                                                               Restless, searching

There is chaos in your sleep so you get no rest
                                                                                    Headaches and pills
And you have people you would die for
And you would die if they did
You have parents who would die for you
But you would die anyway
                                     For nothing
                                     For anyone
Any excuse to leave
He said you have the eyes of a haunted angel
                                                            Such emotion made you uncomfortable
You said it wasn't anything makeup couldn't fix
He said
"Take that mask off."

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

It took fog

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

JL

It took fog

It took fog to realize
There is no use in growing
Things that grow will always be cut down
Dew on the grass, peppered by spider webs
Hills full of red angry fire ants

It took fog to remember
That I could always go back home
That I could skip the canal
And pick an orange straight from the tree
Peeling it with a rusted pocket knife
Would you sit in the grass with me?
The stick of the juice between your fingers

It took fog to show me
That I can still walk down the rows of sugar cane
After playing hide and seek
That I can still **** snakes
And get cut by the sawgrass

It took fog to remind me
That the mangroves were
Full of mosquitoes and fish
And the yellow sun
Was only a round disk
Through the fog

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

Sweet thing

Feb 2012 Tara Ewer

JL

Sweet thing

Cuts and bruises have their uses
Piano player blues
The five or ten
You call your friends
Never really care

Cut your hair
Shave your face
Put your shined shoes on
Part your hair
On the side
Tie on your tie

It all happens for a reason
Red hair braided
Cross legged on the hood of her car
It's so cold out
Here's my coat

A bottle of golden liquor
Drink so deep
Burn and sing
Songs about your lover

"I'm here to take
Or to give
What's known is unimportant
I love your music
Play play play
It's so beautiful you say
Life is so beautiful you say
Saved by the clouds
And by the seas
I became a prince
The golden ring
Meant not a thing
Naked breast
Silver chain
Cool metal fingers
Are my downfall
Fingers on a pearl piano
The ivory tongue sings

String the moon
String the stars
Snip them with the scissors
Then came rain
And then came thunder"