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And was a booming above you That night, black airplanes over the sea And they lowing and shifting like Beached snails As you strained and you to see The retreat of their hairless and blind
You froze in your shoal Prayed for your poor Sky was a roll, soaking in a milk-bowl And when the bread broke, fell in of wet smoke My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart
And there was a you took to mean something: Run, For you will evermore be And the plague of the greasy black engines Has east While you're left to explain to me Released their hairless and blind cavalry
With your hands in pockets, stubbily running To where I'm unfresh, undressed and Well, what is craziness? This crazy talking? You caught some death when you were sleepwalking
It was a dark dream, darlin', it's The firebreather is the clover Beneath his there is cold clay, forever A toothless choking on a feather
But I took my (fearing your fever) to the swimminghole, where there grows bitter herb That blooms but one day a year by the riverside - i'd bring it Apply it To the love you've me
While the river was twisting and braiding, the bobbed And the string sobbed, as it cut through the breeze And I watched how the was kneading so neatly Gone Nearly slowed to a stop in heat - in a frenzy coiling along the muscles beneath
Press on me: we are restless Webs of are swaddling And you call upon the Of the musk of a Shot full of ink, you sink into your crib
Rowing along, among the reeds, among the I heard your song, before my had time to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit being cut and opened Smell of a low and of a lazy cinder
And when the fire away Fire away, son Why you say I was the last
Scrape your it is only skin Makes the sound of And when I cut your hair, and the birds all of the trimmings I am the woman among all women
And the as far as I can see Knee-deep, along The seagull "so long"
I'm humming a song Until the night is on! on! Hold your horses back from the dawn
I have got some business out at the of town Candy weighing both of my down 'Til I can hardly stay afloat, from the weight of (and how the common-folk condemn it is I do, to you, to keep you warm Being a woman, a woman)
But always up the mountainside you're Groping blindly, hungry for Picking through pocket linings - well, what is this? of sassafras, eh sisyphus?
I see the blossoms broke and wet after the Little sister, he will be again I washed a thousand spiders down the drain Spiders hang soaked and dangelin' from all the blooming cherry trees In tiny nooses, safe from - nothing but a nuisance; gone now, dead and Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we felt the of the waves We decided to stay till the rose too far We afraid, cause we know what you are And you know we know what you are
atoll O, indiscreetness and sorrow! Bawl, sea-cow, all done up in a bow
Toddle and Teeth an bit of leather While yarrow, heather and Awkwardly molt the shore
Are you My anymore?
Stay with me for That's an awfully gun I know life lay you down As the has lately done
Failing this, this, Follow me, my friend To see what you anointed in pointing your gun
Lay it down! and slow! is nowhere to go, save up Up the light, undiluted, is weaving in a drunk dream At the sight of my baby, out Back on the patio the bats bring night in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, seashores unmapped
week our picture window produced a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a bird We stood and watched her gape like a And and labour over every intake
I said a sort of for some sort of rare grace Then thought I ought to take her to a place "dog nor vulture nor cat shall toy with you And though you die, bird, you will have a view"
in my hot hand She slumped her weight We through the poison oak Heartbroke and
The dogs were And you cuffed collars I climbed the tree-house how I hollered! Well lain, as still as a stone, in my palm, for a lifetime or two
Then, saw the treetops, cocked her head and up and (while, back in the world that moves, According to the of these clues Dogs run roughly around tufts of finch-down)
And the we passed were a flickering wasteland But his hand in my hand made them hale and While in the lowlands the crops are all coming; We have Life is blissful towards death In a of his fumbling green gentleness
You stopped by, I was all In my doorway, we and jived And when you wept, I was See, I got gone I got wise But I can't with certainty say we
Then down, and And down, and And down, and without sound The blameless You sleeper
Through fire below, and fire above, and within Sleeped through the things that couldn't have been if you hadn't have
And when the fire moves moves away, son And why you say I was the last
All my bones are gone, gone, gone my bones, I don't need none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, to chew on! Suck all day on a stone
Dig a little hole, not three inches Spit your pit in a hole in the Weep upon the spot for the of me! Till up a fine young cherry tree
when the bough breaks, what'll you make for me? A little willow to rest on your knee I do with a trinket such as this? Think of your woman, who's gone to the
But I'm starving and freezing in my old bed! Then i'll crawl across the salt flats to stroke sweet head Come across the desert with no on! I love you truly, or I no-one
Fire away, son Why you say That I was the one? one
Clear the room! There's a fire, a fire, a Get going, and I'm going to be behind you And if the of a woman or two, dear, Couldn't move you to such heights, all I can do Is do, my darling, by you