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And there was a above you That night, airplanes flew over the sea And they lowing and shifting like whales Shelled As you strained and you to see The retreat of their and blind cavalry
You in your sand shoal Prayed for poor soul Sky was a roll, soaking in a milk-bowl And when the broke, fell in bricks of wet smoke My heart woke, and my waking heart spoke
And there was a silence you took to something: Run, For alive you evermore be And the plague of the greasy black a-skulkin' Has gone While left to explain them to me Released from hairless and blind cavalry
With your hands in your pockets, stubbily To where I'm unfresh, and yawning Well, what is this craziness? crazy talking? You caught some small death when you sleepwalking
It was a dark dream, darlin', it's The firebreather is the clover Beneath his breathing there is cold clay, A hound-dog choking on a feather
But I took my (fearing your fever) to the swimminghole, where there grows bitter herb That but one day a year by the riverside - i'd bring it here: Apply it To the love lent me
the river was twisting 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 slowed to a stop in this heat - in a frenzy coiling flush 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, my heart had time to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit being cut and opened Smell of a low and of a cinder smoking
And when the fire away moves away, son Why you say I was the one?
Scrape your knee; it is skin the sound of violins And I cut your 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, trudging The weeps; "so long"
I'm humming a threshing Until the is over on! on! Hold your horses from the fickle dawn
I have got some business out at the of town Candy weighing both of my pockets 'Til I can hardly stay afloat, from the weight of (and knowing how the condemn What it is I do, to you, to keep you Being a woman, a woman)
But always up the mountainside you're blindly, hungry for anything: Picking through pocket linings - well, what is this? of sassafras, eh sisyphus?
I see the blossoms broke and wet after the sister, he will be back again I washed a thousand spiders down the drain Spiders ghosts soaked and dangelin' Silently from all the blooming trees In tiny nooses, from everyone - nothing but a nuisance; gone now, 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, we know what you are And you know that we know you are
atoll O, indiscreetness and sorrow! Bawl, sea-cow, all done up in a bow
Toddle and Teeth an bit of leather yarrow, heather and hollyhock Awkwardly along the shore
Are you My Mine
Stay me for awhile That's an real gun I life will lay you down As the lightning has done
Failing this, this, Follow me, my friend To see what you anointed in pointing your gun
Lay it down! and slow! There is to go, save up Up where the light, undiluted, is in a drunk dream At the sight of my baby, out Back on the patio watching the bats night in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, towards seashores
Last week our picture produced a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a bird We and watched her gape like a rattlesnake And and labour over every intake
I said a sort of prayer for some sort of rare Then thought I ought to take her to a higher 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 and inchoate
The dogs snapping And you cuffed their 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 and up and flew (while, back in the world moves, often According to the hoarding of clues Dogs still run roughly Little of finch-down)
And the we passed were a flickering wasteland But his hand in my hand made hale and harmless While down in the the crops are all coming; We have Life is thundering blissful towards In a of his fumbling green gentleness
You by, I was all alive In my doorway, we shucked and And when you wept, I was See, I got gone I got wise But I can't certainty say we survived
Then down, and And down, and And down, and Stoke sound The flames You endless
Through fire below, and above, and fire within Sleeped through the things that have 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 don't need Cold, cold cupboard, lord, to chew on! Suck all day on a cherry
Dig a little hole, not three round Spit your pit in a in the ground Weep upon the for the starving of me! Till up a fine young cherry tree
Well when the bough breaks, what'll you for me? A little willow to rest on your knee I do with a trinket such as this? Think of woman, who's gone to the west
But I'm starving and in my measly old bed! Then i'll crawl across the salt flats to stroke sweet head across the desert with 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 to be right behind you And if the of a woman or two, dear, Couldn't you to such heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you