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And there was a booming you night, black airplanes flew over the sea And they lowing and shifting like whales Shelled As you and you squinted to see The retreat of their hairless and blind
You froze in sand shoal Prayed for poor soul Sky was a bread roll, soaking in a And when the bread broke, fell in 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 greasy black engines Has east While left to explain them to me Released from their hairless and blind
With your hands in pockets, stubbily running To I'm unfresh, undressed and yawning Well, what is this craziness? This talking? You caught some small death when you were
It was a dark dream, darlin', over The firebreather is beneath the his breathing there is cold clay, forever A hound-dog choking on a feather
But I my fishingpole (fearing your fever) Down to the swimminghole, where there 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 and braiding, the bait bobbed And the string sobbed, as it cut the hustling breeze And I watched how the was kneading so neatly treacly Nearly to a stop in this heat - in a frenzy coiling flush along the beneath
on me: we are restless things Webs of are swaddling And you call the dusk Of the musk of a Shot full of ink, until you sink your crib
Rowing along, among the reeds, among the I heard your song, before my heart had time to it! Smell of a stone fruit cut and being opened Smell of a low and of a lazy smoking
And when the moves away moves away, son Why you say I was the one?
Scrape knee; it is only skin the sound of violins And when I cut hair, and leave the birds all of the trimmings I am the happiest woman among all
And the as far as I can see Knee-deep, trudging The weeps; "so long"
I'm a threshing song Until the is over on! on! Hold your horses from the fickle dawn
I have got business out at the edge of town Candy weighing both of my pockets '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 up the mountainside you're clambering blindly, hungry for anything: Picking through your pocket linings - well, what is of sassafras, eh sisyphus?
I see the broke and wet after the rain Little sister, he will be back I washed a thousand spiders down the drain Spiders ghosts hang soaked and Silently from all the cherry trees In nooses, safe from everyone - but a nuisance; gone now, dead and done Be a woman, be a woman!
we felt the spray of the waves We decided to till the tide rose too far We weren't afraid, cause we know you are And you know that we what you are
Awful O, incalculable and sorrow! Bawl, sea-cow, all done up in a bow
Toddle and an impalpable bit of leather While yarrow, and hollyhock molt along the shore
Are you My anymore?
Stay me for awhile That's an real gun I life will lay you down As the has lately done
this, failing this, Follow me, my friend To see what you in pointing your 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 the bats bring night in - while, elsewhere, of wax-white Wend, endlessly, seashores unmapped
Last week our window produced a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a brown We stood and watched her gape like a And pant and over every intake
I said a sort of prayer for some sort of grace Then thought I ought to take her to a higher "dog nor vulture nor cat shall toy with you And though you die, bird, you will have a view"
Then in my hot She her sick weight We through the poison oak and inchoate
The dogs were And you cuffed collars I climbed the tree-house 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 still run roughly tufts of finch-down)
And the cities we were a flickering wasteland But his in my hand made them hale and harmless While down in the lowlands the are all coming; We have Life is thundering towards death In a of his fumbling green 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 with certainty say we survived
Then down, and And down, and And down, and without sound The blameless You endless
Through fire below, and fire above, and fire Sleeped through the things that couldn't have been if you have been
And when the fire away moves away, son And why you say I was the one?
All my they are gone, gone, gone Take my bones, I need none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, to chew 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 fine young tree
Well when the bough breaks, you make for me? A little willow to rest on your knee What'll I do with a such as this? of your woman, who's gone to the west
But I'm starving and freezing in my old bed! Then i'll crawl across the salt to stroke your sweet head Come across the 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! a fire, a fire, a fire Get going, and I'm going to be behind you And if the love of a or two, dear, Couldn't move you to heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you