WORDS

Selected Writings, Poems, & Songs

On Walking The Color Wheel

Wedged between cardboard and steel: Oldenburg and me

Correct-o-type “Break The Particular Personal Favorites”

little things

The Thing Is

In This Place

Not Us. Not Now

Grass Isn’t Green

A Beggar’s Poem

Best Smile

Fallen Trees

Happiness

Inflected Form

Acceleration

Wetlands in Springtime

Someone’s Home Again

Everything’s Bigger

Inflected Form II

The Last Lines

First Rain

Retrospective

Recollections in Blue

DaddyLongLegs

Nothing To Do With Thirty

Benson

Rethinking the Power of Three

Let's Love

The Happiness Poem

Original Song Lyrics

from album Jack Ball Suite

Sometimes I Do

Gone Astray

Just Want to be Alone

Red Mountain Wine

Jack Ball in the Sand    

No Telling

Missing You

Telephone Pole

Take a Minute On Me

Somebody’s Calling

Promised Land

Words Like Love

I Won’t Tell You

That Kind of Day

Don’t Tell Me How To Cry

Oakleigh

from the album Do What You Do Best

Do What You Do Best

How About You?

Angels

Black Sheep

Crying Again

Lateral Drift

I Think It’s Going To Be Alright

Black and Blue

Twenty-One Years

Everything Goes

Looking For Acorns

This Is The Poem

Landscape

Time to Let Go

Broken Lines

You’re There

Where Did I Go Wrong?

All Because of You

from the album Some Stories

Some Stories

Can't Give Away

Sonnet For Saints

Their Better Way

Our Own Time

Moons and Roses

Lost Lines

Let's Ruin Everything

Shoulder

Words Come True 

Old Man Sleeps

Roshambo

Then Say Goodbye

Nothing at All

From the album A Fool’s Hearty Wisdom

As You Like It

Somewhere

How Lucky Can A Guy Get?

He Walks With A Cane

Fortune Cookie

Not To Go

The Rub

Losing Ground

Too Far

Song for Tomorrow

Day's Too Short


UNRELEASED SONGS

Your Way of My Way

I Sometimes Do

Passing By

Candy Jar

This One Will Have to Do

Cardigan

You’re Somebody

Right When We’re Wrong

Living in a Cardboard World

Over the Line

New Day

On His Own

Coat in the Closet

Between Us

No Songs Anymore

Rhyme For the Simple Word

Tomorrow’s St. Valentine’s Day

Post Birthday Blues

Read Between the Lines

You’re Making Me Nervous

Bench By The Sea

Blues To Me

Ink on the Page

Cardigan

I Go Blind

Meant To Go

Daddy Long Legs

What Do You Know?

Bone Pile (Domino Theory)

Any Walking

Running Around All Day

Most Times

Someday This Day Will End

Let’s Be Tomorrow

The Same Day

Candles in the Night

I Better Sing Today

Here’s A Song

I Never Knew

Think of You

That Room With A View

Taking My Hat Off

Scraps of Paper

One More Shim

Building Bridges

Nothing To Be