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And there was a above you That night, black airplanes over the sea And they were lowing and like whales Shelled As you and you squinted to see The retreat of their and blind cavalry
You froze in your shoal Prayed for your poor Sky was a bread roll, soaking in a And the bread broke, fell in bricks of wet smoke My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart
And there was a silence you took to something: Run, For alive you will be And the plague of the black engines a-skulkin' Has east you're left to explain them to me Released from their hairless and cavalry
With your hands in pockets, stubbily running To I'm unfresh, undressed and yawning Well, what is this craziness? This crazy You caught some small death when you sleepwalking
It was a dark dream, darlin', it's The firebreather is beneath the Beneath his there is cold clay, forever A toothless choking on a feather
But I took my fishingpole (fearing fever) Down to the swimminghole, there grows bitter herb That blooms but one day a by the riverside - i'd bring it here: Apply it To the you've lent me
While the river was and braiding, the bait bobbed And the string sobbed, as it cut through the hustling And I watched how the water was kneading so treacly Nearly slowed to a stop in this - in a frenzy flush along the muscles beneath
Press on me: we are restless of seaweed are swaddling And you upon the dusk Of the musk of a Shot full of ink, until you sink into crib
Rowing along, the reeds, among the rushes I heard your song, my heart had time to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit being cut and being Smell of a low and of a cinder smoking
And when the fire moves moves away, son Why you say I was the last
Scrape knee; it is only skin Makes the of violins And I cut your hair, and leave the birds all of the trimmings I am the happiest among all women
And the as far as I can see Knee-deep, along The weeps; "so long"
I'm humming a threshing the night is over on! on! Hold your horses back the fickle dawn
I got some business out at the edge of town Candy weighing of my pockets down I can hardly stay afloat, from the weight of them (and knowing how the common-folk it is I do, to you, to keep you warm Being a woman, a woman)
But always up the you're clambering Groping blindly, for anything: Picking through your pocket - well, what is this? of sassafras, eh sisyphus?
I see the broke and wet after the rain Little sister, he be back again I have a thousand spiders down the drain ghosts hang soaked and dangelin' Silently from all the cherry trees In tiny nooses, safe from - nothing but a nuisance; gone now, dead and 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, we know what you are And you know that we know you are
atoll O, incalculable and sorrow! Bawl, sea-cow, all done up in a bow
Toddle and Teeth an impalpable bit of While yarrow, and hollyhock Awkwardly molt along the
Are you My Mine
with me for awhile That's an real gun I life will lay you down As the lightning has lately
Failing this, this, me, my sweetest friend To see what you anointed in pointing gun there
Lay it down! and slow! There is to go, save up Up where the light, undiluted, is in a drunk dream At the of my baby, out back: Back on the patio watching the bats bring in - while, elsewhere, of wax-white Wend, endlessly, towards unmapped
Last week our picture window a half-word and hollow, hit by a brown bird We stood and watched her like a rattlesnake And pant and labour every intake
I said a sort of prayer for some sort of grace Then thought I to take her to a higher place Said: "dog nor nor cat shall toy with you And though you die, bird, you will a fine view"
Then in my hot She slumped her sick We through the poison oak Heartbroke and
The dogs snapping And you cuffed collars While I climbed the how I hollered! Well lain, as still as a stone, in my palm, for a lifetime or two
Then, saw the treetops, her head and up and flew (while, back in the world moves, often According to the of these clues Dogs run roughly around tufts of finch-down)
And the cities we passed were a wasteland But his hand in my hand made them hale and While down in the the crops are all coming; We everything Life is thundering towards death In a stampede of his green gentleness
You stopped by, I was all In my doorway, we shucked and And you wept, I was gone: See, I got when I got wise But I can't with say we survived
Then down, and And down, and And down, and without sound The flames You sleeper
Through fire below, and fire above, and within Sleeped through the things that couldn't been if you hadn't have been
And when the fire away Fire away, son And why you say I was the last
All my bones are gone, gone, gone Take my bones, I need none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, nothing to on! all day on a cherry stone
Dig a hole, not three inches round Spit pit in a hole in the ground Weep the spot for the starving of me! Till up grow a fine young cherry
Well when the bough breaks, what'll you for me? A little willow cabin to on your knee What'll I do with a such as this? Think of your woman, gone to the west
But I'm starving and in my measly old bed! Then i'll crawl across the salt 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 That I was the last one
Clear the room! There's a fire, a fire, a Get going, and I'm going to be right you And if the of a woman or two, dear, move you to such heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you