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And there was a booming you That night, black airplanes over the sea And they were lowing and shifting Beached Shelled As you and you squinted to see The retreat of their hairless and blind
You in your sand shoal for your poor soul Sky was a bread roll, soaking in a And when the broke, fell in bricks of wet smoke My sleeping woke, and my waking heart spoke
And was a silence you took to mean something: Run, For you will evermore be And the plague of the greasy black engines Has east you're left to explain them to me Released from their hairless and blind
your hands in your pockets, stubbily running To I'm unfresh, undressed and yawning Well, what is this craziness? crazy talking? You caught some small when you were sleepwalking
It was a dream, darlin', it's over The is beneath the clover Beneath his breathing there is clay, forever A hound-dog 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 year by the - i'd bring it here: it gently To the you've lent me
While the river was and braiding, the bait bobbed And the sobbed, as it cut through the hustling breeze And I watched how the was kneading so neatly treacly Nearly to a stop in this heat - in a coiling flush along the muscles beneath
Press on me: we are things of seaweed are swaddling And you call upon the Of the musk of a Shot of ink, until you sink into your crib
Rowing along, the reeds, among the rushes I heard your song, before my heart had time to it! of a stone fruit being cut and being opened Smell of a low and of a lazy smoking
And when the fire away Fire away, son Why you say I was the last
Scrape your knee; it is skin Makes the of violins And when I cut your hair, and 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 Until the is over on! on! Hold horses back from the fickle dawn
I have got some business out at the edge of weighing both of my pockets down 'Til I can hardly stay afloat, from the 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, hungry for through your pocket linings - well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh
I see the blossoms and wet after the rain Little sister, he will be again I have washed a thousand spiders the drain Spiders ghosts soaked and dangelin' Silently all the blooming cherry trees In nooses, safe from everyone - nothing but a gone now, dead and done Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we the spray of the waves We decided to till the tide rose too far We weren't afraid, cause we what you are And you know that we know you are
Awful O, incalculable and sorrow! Bawl, Sibyl sea-cow, all up in a bow
Toddle and an impalpable bit of leather While yarrow, heather and molt along the shore
Are you My Mine
Stay me for awhile That's an real gun I know will lay you down As the lightning has done
Failing this, this, Follow me, my sweetest 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 of my baby, out back: Back on the patio watching the bats night in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, seashores unmapped
Last week our picture produced a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a bird We and watched her gape like a rattlesnake And pant and over every intake
I said a sort of prayer for some sort of grace Then thought I ought to her to a higher place Said: "dog nor vulture nor cat shall toy you And though you die, bird, you have a fine view"
in my hot hand She her sick weight We tramped the poison oak and inchoate
The were snapping And you cuffed their I climbed the tree-house how I hollered! Well she'd lain, as still as a stone, in my palm, for a or two
Then, saw the treetops, her head and up and flew (while, back in the that moves, often 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 them hale and harmless While down in the lowlands the crops are all We have Life is blissful towards death In a stampede of his fumbling green
You stopped by, I was all In my doorway, we shucked and And you wept, I was gone: See, I got gone I got wise But I with certainty say we survived
Then down, and And down, and And down, and Stoke sound The blameless You endless
Through below, and fire above, and fire within Sleeped the things that couldn't have 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 my bones, I don't need none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, nothing to on! Suck all day on a stone
Dig a little hole, not three inches Spit pit in a hole in the ground upon the spot for the starving of me! Till up grow a young cherry tree
when the bough breaks, what'll you make for me? A little willow to rest on your knee What'll I do a trinket such as this? Think of your woman, who's gone to the
But I'm starving and in my measly old bed! Then i'll crawl across the salt flats to stroke your head across the desert with no shoes on! I love you truly, or I love
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, move you to such heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you