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And there was a booming 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 hairless and blind cavalry
You froze in your shoal Prayed for poor soul Sky was a bread roll, soaking in a And the bread broke, fell in bricks of wet smoke My heart woke, and my waking heart spoke
And there was a silence you took to mean Run, For you will evermore be And the plague of the black engines a-skulkin' Has east While left to explain them to me Released from 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 some small when you were sleepwalking
It was a dream, darlin', it's over The firebreather is beneath the Beneath his breathing there is clay, forever A hound-dog choking on a feather
But I my fishingpole (fearing your fever) Down to the swimminghole, where grows bitter herb blooms but one day a year by the riverside - i'd bring it here: Apply it To the you've lent me
While the river was twisting and braiding, the bait And the string sobbed, as it cut the hustling 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 muscles
Press on me: we are restless Webs of are swaddling And you upon the dusk Of the musk of a Shot full of ink, you sink into your crib
along, among the reeds, among the rushes I heard your song, my heart had time to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit being cut and opened Smell of a low and of a lazy smoking
And when the fire away Fire away, son Why you say I was the one?
your knee; it is only skin Makes the of violins 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, trudging The weeps; "so long"
I'm a threshing song Until the night is on! on! Hold your horses back from the fickle
I have got business out at the edge of town Candy weighing both of my down 'Til I can hardly stay afloat, 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 blindly, hungry for anything: Picking your pocket linings - well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh
I see the broke and wet after the rain sister, he will be back again I have a thousand spiders down the drain ghosts hang soaked and dangelin' Silently from all the blooming trees In nooses, safe from everyone - nothing but a nuisance; now, dead and done Be a woman, be a woman!
we felt the spray of the waves We decided to stay till the tide too far We weren't afraid, cause we know you are And you know we know what you are
Awful O, incalculable and sorrow! Bawl, sea-cow, all done up in a bow
Toddle and Teeth an bit of leather While yarrow, and hollyhock Awkwardly molt the shore
Are you My Mine
Stay with me for That's an real gun I know life lay you down As the has lately done
this, failing this, Follow me, my sweetest To see what you anointed in your gun there
Lay it down! and slow! There is nowhere to go, up Up the light, undiluted, is weaving in a drunk dream At the of my baby, out back: on the patio watching the bats bring night in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, seashores unmapped
Last our picture window produced a half-word and hollow, hit by a brown bird We and watched her gape like a rattlesnake And pant and over every intake
I said a sort of prayer for some of rare grace Then thought I ought to take her to a place Said: "dog nor vulture nor cat toy with you And though you die, bird, you will have a view"
in my hot hand She her sick weight We tramped through the oak Heartbroke and
The dogs were And you their collars While I climbed the how I hollered! Well she'd lain, as still as a stone, in my palm, for a or two
Then, saw the treetops, cocked her head and up and (while, back in the that moves, often to the hoarding of these clues Dogs still run around tufts 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 have is thundering blissful towards death In a stampede of his fumbling gentleness
You stopped by, I was all In my doorway, we shucked and And you wept, I was gone: See, I got gone when I got But I can't certainty say we survived
Then down, and And down, and And down, and Stoke sound The flames You sleeper
Through below, and fire above, and fire within Sleeped through the things that couldn't have if you hadn't have been
And when the moves away Fire away, son And why you say I was the one?
All my they are gone, gone, gone my bones, I don't need none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, to chew on! all day on a cherry stone
Dig a little hole, not three round Spit your pit in a hole in the Weep the spot for the starving of me! Till up grow a fine young cherry
Well the bough breaks, what'll you make for me? A little willow cabin to rest on knee What'll I do a trinket such as this? Think of your woman, who's to the west
But I'm and freezing in my measly old bed! Then i'll across the salt flats to stroke your sweet head Come across the desert 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 going to be right you And if the love of a or two, dear, Couldn't you to such heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you