Whose is the hand that I will Whose is the I will see? Whose is the name I will call, when I am called to thee?
In life, who did you love, the drifting ashes, beneath the sheeting of air barrenly bore our rations?
When I speak, it was too late. you hear me calling? Didn't you see my leap, like a pup in the constant
In this life, did you crouch, when the sky had set to Burning within, from without, and gut was a serpent, coiling.
And, for the of that pit of snakes, for did you allay your shyness, and all your mercy, and madness, and grace, in a day, beneath the cypress?
It was not on principal. Show, Pro-heart, that you got gall. A I can bear a lot, but not pall.
I can a lot, but not that pall! Kingfisher, the alarm. Say, "Sweet darlin, now, come to my me all about the love you on the farm."
He was a kind, man with a lip and a steady hand, but he loved me just like a little like a little child a little lamb.
to the ground, by something there; by the bad air, while the clouds to read all the signs, preparing for when the bombs hung from the of the earth, while the stars away, below, and brakeless, gravel-loose, falling silent as gavels in the
I lay and spit my chaw, wrapped in the arm of the Law, who has seen it I can a lot, but not that pall.
I can bear a lot, but not pall! Kingfisher, cast your oh, Lord, it happens without trying, when I a low look from my eye.
rain upon the one you loved, and, though you were sparring, blood on the eye. the glove. Say, I am not sorry.
here and name the one you loved, beneath the ashes, and, in naming, rise time, as it, flashing, passes.
We by the boatload, and were volcanoes, charting the skies. The of the earth us bound, and calcified, and made as as obsidian, unmoving, our eyes: mooning and blinking from faces marked coal. (Ash and shrinking loud as thunder rolling.) I swear I you. You know me. Where we met before? Tell me to authority do you your soul?
I had a dream you to me, You not do me harm anymore, and your knife, you evicted my its little lighthouse on the seashore.
And I saw my blood had no bounds, spreading in a circle an atom bomb, soaking and in its path, and welling in my like a birdbath.
It is too the day we are born, we commence our dying. to serve, with the heart of a kingfisher, lie the lion.