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And was a booming above you That night, black flew over the sea And they lowing and shifting like whales Shelled As you strained and you to see The of their hairless and blind cavalry
You in your sand shoal Prayed for your poor Sky was a roll, soaking in a milk-bowl And when the bread broke, fell in of wet smoke My sleeping woke, and my waking heart spoke
And was a silence you took to mean something: Run, For alive you evermore be And the of the greasy black engines a-skulkin' Has gone While you're left to them to me Released from hairless and blind cavalry
With hands in your pockets, stubbily running To where I'm unfresh, and yawning Well, what is craziness? This crazy talking? You caught small death when you were sleepwalking
It was a dream, darlin', it's over The is beneath the clover Beneath his breathing there is cold clay, A toothless hound-dog choking on a
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 love lent me
While the river was twisting and braiding, the bobbed And the sobbed, as it cut through the hustling breeze And I watched how the water was so neatly Gone 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 upon the Of the musk of a Shot full of ink, until you sink into crib
Rowing along, among the reeds, the rushes I heard your song, my heart had time to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit 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 your it is only skin the sound of violins And when I cut your hair, and leave the 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 song Until the night is on! on! Hold horses back from the fickle dawn
I got some business out at the edge of town Candy weighing both of my down 'Til I can hardly afloat, from the weight of them (and knowing how the common-folk What it is I do, to you, to you warm a woman, being a woman)
But up the mountainside 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 washed a spiders down the drain Spiders hang soaked and dangelin' Silently from all the blooming cherry In nooses, safe from everyone - nothing but a nuisance; gone now, and done Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we felt the spray of the We to stay till the tide rose too far We weren't afraid, we know what you are And you know we know what you are
Awful 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 Mine
with me for awhile That's an awfully gun I know life lay you down As the lightning has done
Failing this, this, Follow me, my sweetest To see what you anointed in pointing gun there
Lay it down! and slow! There is 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 the bats bring night in - while, elsewhere, of wax-white Wend, endlessly, towards unmapped
Last week our picture window a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a brown We stood and watched her like a rattlesnake And and labour over every intake
I said a sort of prayer for some of rare grace Then thought I ought to her to a higher place Said: "dog nor vulture nor cat toy with you And you die, bird, you will have a fine view"
Then in my hot She her sick weight We tramped through the oak Heartbroke and
The were snapping 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, her head and up and flew (while, back in the that moves, often According to the of these clues still run roughly around Little of finch-down)
And the cities we were a flickering wasteland But his in my hand made them hale and harmless While in the lowlands the crops are all coming; We have Life is thundering towards death In a stampede of his 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 can't with say we survived
down, and down And down, and And down, and without sound The blameless You sleeper
Through fire below, and above, and fire within Sleeped through the things that couldn't 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 need none Cold, cupboard, lord, nothing to chew on! Suck all day on a cherry
Dig a hole, not three inches round your pit in a hole in the ground Weep the spot for the starving of me! Till up a fine young cherry tree
Well the bough breaks, what'll you make for me? A little willow to rest on your knee I do with 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 crawl the salt flats to stroke your sweet head Come the desert with no shoes on! I love you truly, or I love
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 move you to such heights, all I can do Is do, my darling, by you