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And there was a above you night, black airplanes flew over the sea And they were lowing and like Beached snails As you strained and you to see The retreat of their hairless and cavalry
You froze in your sand Prayed for your soul Sky was a bread roll, in a milk-bowl And when the bread broke, fell in bricks of wet My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart
And was a silence you took to mean something: Run, For alive you evermore be And the plague of the greasy black a-skulkin' Has gone While you're 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 death when you were sleepwalking
It was a dream, darlin', it's over The firebreather is the clover his breathing there is cold clay, forever A toothless choking on a feather
But I took my (fearing your fever) Down to the swimminghole, where there grows herb That blooms but one day a year by the riverside - i'd bring it it gently To the love you've me
While the was twisting and braiding, the bait bobbed And the string sobbed, as it cut through the breeze And I watched how the was kneading so neatly Gone Nearly slowed to a stop in heat - in a frenzy flush along the muscles beneath
on me: we are restless things Webs of seaweed are And you call upon the Of the musk of a Shot of ink, until you sink into your crib
Rowing along, among the reeds, the rushes I your song, before my heart had time to hush it! Smell of a fruit being cut and being opened Smell of a low and of a lazy cinder
And the fire moves away Fire away, son Why you say I was the one?
Scrape 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 happiest woman among all
And the as far as I can see Knee-deep, along The weeps; "so long"
I'm humming a song Until the is over on! on! Hold your horses from the fickle dawn
I have got some business out at the edge of Candy weighing of my pockets down I can hardly stay afloat, from the weight of them (and knowing how the condemn What it is I do, to you, to keep you a woman, being a woman)
But up the mountainside you're clambering Groping blindly, hungry for Picking through pocket linings - well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh
I see the blossoms broke and wet after the sister, he will be back again I have washed a thousand down the drain Spiders ghosts hang and dangelin' from all the blooming cherry trees In nooses, safe from everyone - nothing but a nuisance; gone now, and done Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we felt the of the waves We decided to stay till the tide too far We afraid, cause 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 While yarrow, and hollyhock Awkwardly molt along the
Are you My anymore?
Stay with me for That's an real gun I know life will lay you As the lightning has lately
Failing this, this, Follow me, my friend To see you anointed in pointing your gun there
Lay it down! and slow! There is nowhere to go, up Up where the light, undiluted, is weaving in a drunk At the sight of my baby, out Back on the patio watching the bats night 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 and watched her gape like a rattlesnake And pant and labour over every
I said a sort of prayer for some sort of rare Then thought I to take her to a higher place Said: "dog nor vulture nor cat toy with you And you die, bird, you will have a fine view"
in my hot hand She slumped her weight We tramped through the oak Heartbroke and
The dogs snapping And you cuffed their 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, her head and up and flew (while, in the world that moves, often According to the hoarding of clues still run roughly around Little of finch-down)
And the we passed were a flickering wasteland But his hand in my made them hale and harmless While down in the lowlands the are all coming; We everything Life is blissful towards death In a stampede of his green gentleness
You stopped by, I was all In my doorway, we shucked and And when you wept, I was See, I got gone when I got But I with certainty say we survived
down, and down And down, and And down, and Stoke without The flames You endless
Through fire below, and fire above, and fire Sleeped through the that couldn't have been if you hadn't have been
And when the moves away moves away, son And why you say I was the one?
All my bones they are gone, gone, Take my bones, I need none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, nothing to on! Suck all day on a cherry
Dig a hole, not three inches round Spit your pit in a hole in the Weep upon the spot for the of me! Till up grow a young cherry tree
Well 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 to the west
But I'm starving and in my measly old bed! Then i'll crawl across the salt flats to your sweet head Come across the desert no shoes on! I you truly, or I love no-one
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 love of a or two, dear, move you to such heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you