Findings:
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- She Was 18, It Was Summer
- Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
- There was always the blue of you
- I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- There was a young lady of Riga
- There is nothing growing here, in the space between she and me
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
- She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- She was cilantro, jalepeno, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- If there is a heaven, she is there.
- The House on the Island Where She Was Born
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- She is and was
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There was a time when I was a better person
- She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- There was a cold day
- There once was a girl named Irene
- There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
- She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
- Before you, there was me
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Once there was a way...
- She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
- There was no one waiting for me...
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- She was locked in time
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
- She was cilantro, jalapeño, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- She was too beautiful to be human
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- she was just the dry smell of gasoline
- She knew what she was doing
- She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
- There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
- She just sat there
- she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- Besides the part where she was the only one
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- Where's the kaboom?
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- One hour there was sunlight
- and there was this girl
- She didn't know what outside was anymore.
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- There Was A Friend
- She was steady
- For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- There Was No Leak
- I was there
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- To a girl who thought she was moving away
- She was very beautiful. Y'know?
- There was a baby in China
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There was a little girl
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- What the hell was she thinking?
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- A knock there was upon the door
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
- She always was devious in her beauty
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
- Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
- She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
- piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- She was free
- She was so tall, and I was so in love
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- she was waylaid by an octopus
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- There She Goes
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- There was a rose that faded young
- There was once a Man
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
- She was so pleased to learn that she was right
- I remember, there was one
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- There was an old lady
- No shit, there I was
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- There was a land where lived no violets
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- Was There a Time
- There was a man and a woman
- There was a time before
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- There Once Was a Farmer
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- Was it ever there?
- When she was bad
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- Surah 58 She that Disputeth
- Surah 60 She that is to be Examined
- God is a she
- She said, while hugging a bowl of turnips close to her bosom
- I haven't seen her in a month. She is still beautiful.
- She Sells Sanctuary
- I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
- A tentative laugh, she expected to be interrupted
- She Sleeps
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