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And there was a booming you That night, black flew over the sea And they were lowing and like Beached Shelled As you strained and you to see The retreat of hairless and blind cavalry
You froze in sand shoal Prayed for your poor Sky was a roll, soaking in a milk-bowl And when the bread broke, fell in bricks of wet My sleeping woke, and my waking heart spoke
And there was a silence you took to mean Run, For alive you will be And the plague of the greasy engines a-skulkin' Has gone While you're left to explain to me from their hairless and blind cavalry
With your in your pockets, stubbily running To where I'm unfresh, undressed and Well, what is this craziness? crazy talking? You caught small death when you were sleepwalking
It was a dark dream, darlin', over The is beneath the clover his breathing there is cold clay, forever A toothless hound-dog choking on a
But I took my fishingpole (fearing fever) Down to the swimminghole, there grows bitter herb That blooms but one day a year by the riverside - i'd bring it it gently To the love you've me
While the river was and braiding, the bait bobbed And the string sobbed, as it cut through the breeze And I how the water was kneading so neatly Gone Nearly slowed to a stop in this - in a frenzy coiling flush along the beneath
on me: we are restless things Webs of seaweed are And you upon the dusk Of the of a squid Shot of ink, until you sink into your crib
Rowing along, the reeds, among the rushes I heard song, before my heart had time to hush it! of a stone fruit being cut and being opened Smell of a low and of a cinder smoking
And when the fire moves Fire away, son Why you say I was the one?
Scrape your it is only skin Makes the of violins And when I cut hair, and leave the birds all of the trimmings I am the happiest woman all women
And the as far as I can see Knee-deep, along The seagull "so long"
I'm a threshing song the night is over on! on! Hold your horses from the fickle dawn
I have got some business out at the edge of Candy both of my pockets down 'Til I can hardly afloat, from the weight of them (and how the common-folk condemn What it is I do, to you, to you warm a woman, being a woman)
But always up the mountainside clambering Groping blindly, for anything: through your pocket linings - well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh
I see the blossoms and wet after the rain sister, he will be back again I washed a thousand spiders down the drain Spiders ghosts hang and dangelin' Silently from all the blooming trees In tiny nooses, from everyone - but a nuisance; gone now, dead and done Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we the spray of the waves We decided to stay the tide rose too far We weren't afraid, cause we what you are And you that we know what you are
Awful O, indiscreetness and sorrow! Bawl, Sibyl sea-cow, all up in a bow
and roll; Teeth an bit of leather While yarrow, and hollyhock Awkwardly molt the shore
Are you My Mine
Stay me for awhile That's an real gun I know life will lay you As the has lately done
Failing this, this, Follow me, my sweetest To see what you anointed in pointing gun there
Lay it down! and slow! There is nowhere to go, up Up where the light, undiluted, is in a drunk dream At the sight of my baby, out on the patio watching the bats bring night in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, towards seashores
Last week our picture window a half-word and hollow, hit by a brown bird We stood and her gape like a rattlesnake And pant and labour every intake
I said a sort of prayer for some sort of grace Then I ought to take her to a higher place "dog nor vulture nor cat shall toy with you And though you die, bird, you will a fine view"
Then in my hot She her sick weight We tramped through the oak and inchoate
The dogs were And you their collars I climbed the tree-house how I hollered! Well she'd lain, as as a stone, in my palm, for a lifetime or two
Then, saw the treetops, cocked her head and up and (while, in the world that moves, often According to the hoarding of clues Dogs still run around Little of finch-down)
And the we passed were a flickering wasteland But his hand in my hand made hale and harmless down in the lowlands the crops are all coming; We everything Life is thundering blissful death In a stampede of his fumbling green
You stopped by, I was all In my doorway, we and jived And when you wept, I was See, I got when I got wise But I can't with certainty say we
Then down, and And down, and And down, and Stoke sound The blameless You sleeper
Through fire below, and fire above, and fire Sleeped through the things that couldn't been if you hadn't have been
And the fire moves away moves away, son And why you say I was the last
All my they are gone, gone, gone Take my bones, I don't none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, nothing to on! all day on a cherry stone
Dig a little hole, not inches round Spit your pit in a in the ground upon the spot for the starving of me! Till up grow a fine cherry tree
Well when the bough breaks, what'll you for me? A little willow cabin to on your knee What'll I do with a trinket such as Think of your woman, who's gone to the
But I'm starving and freezing in my old bed! Then i'll crawl the salt flats to stroke your sweet head Come across the desert no shoes on! I love you truly, or I no-one
Fire away, son Why you say I was the last one? one
Clear the room! There's a fire, a fire, a Get going, and I'm to be right 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