Date: 2007
"When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird, / Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse, / All your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse, / Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt, / Better find yourself a place to level out."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2007
"Got a cricket for a conscience, always looks the other way."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2008
"Oh Bryn, you see through the dark, / Right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart."
preview | full record— Koenig, Ezra (b. 1984) [Vampire Weekend]
Date: 2009
"These are some of the things // you don't have to know because the melody / is like a small bird, maybe a yellow canary, / that wings its way into your mind / --no, into your heart-- / where there's a perch already // set up for it, a little trapeze / to swing back and forth on as it sings / and...
preview | full record— Raab, Lawrence (b. 1946)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive.
preview | full record— McGrath, Campbell (b. 1962)
Date: June 7, 2010
"They have yearnings and fears that reside in an inner beast you could call The Big Shaggy."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: May 21, 2011
"My thoughts turn into the cowbirds wandering among the horses’ hooves."
preview | full record— Klinkenbourg, Verlyn (b. 1952)
Date: December 20, 2014
"Further, just as the human stomach -- unlike the termite's -- can't digest wood, so there are some things our brains just aren't capable of knowing."
preview | full record— Kaplan, Eric
Date: April 30, 2014
"It is because you have maggots for a soul, you fucking barbarian."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: March, 2014
"my good mother, // her mind a trail of crumbs / in a woods flocked with birds."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)