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And was a booming above you That night, airplanes flew over the sea And were lowing and shifting like Beached Shelled As you strained and you to see The retreat of their hairless and cavalry
You in your sand shoal Prayed for your soul Sky was a roll, soaking in a milk-bowl And the bread broke, fell in bricks of wet smoke My sleeping heart woke, and my waking spoke
And there was a silence you took to mean Run, For alive you will be And the plague of the greasy engines a-skulkin' Has gone you're left to explain them to me Released their hairless and blind cavalry
your hands in your pockets, stubbily running To I'm unfresh, undressed and yawning Well, what is this craziness? crazy talking? You caught small death when you were sleepwalking
It was a dark dream, darlin', it's The firebreather is the clover Beneath his there is cold clay, forever A hound-dog choking on a feather
But I my fishingpole (fearing your fever) to the swimminghole, where there grows bitter herb That blooms but one day a by the riverside - i'd bring it here: Apply it To the you've lent me
the river was twisting 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 coiling flush along the muscles beneath
Press on me: we are restless of seaweed are swaddling And you call the dusk Of the musk of a full of ink, until you sink into your crib
Rowing along, among the reeds, among the I heard your song, my heart had time to hush it! of a stone fruit being cut and being opened Smell of a low and of a lazy cinder
And when the moves away moves away, son Why you say I was the last
Scrape your knee; it is skin Makes the sound of 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 seagull "so long"
I'm humming a threshing the night 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 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 Being a woman, a woman)
But always up the mountainside you're Groping blindly, for anything: Picking through your linings - well, what is this? of sassafras, eh sisyphus?
I see the blossoms broke and wet the rain Little sister, he be back again I have a thousand spiders down the drain Spiders ghosts hang and dangelin' Silently all the blooming cherry trees In tiny nooses, from everyone - nothing but a nuisance; gone now, dead and Be a woman, be a woman!
we felt the spray of the waves We to stay till the tide rose too far We weren't afraid, cause we what 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 Teeth an bit of leather While yarrow, heather and Awkwardly molt along the
Are you My anymore?
Stay with me for an awfully real gun I life will lay you down As the has lately done
Failing this, this, me, my sweetest 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 weaving in a drunk At the of my baby, out back: Back on the patio watching the bats bring in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, seashores unmapped
week our picture window produced a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a bird We stood and her gape like a rattlesnake And pant and labour 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 vulture nor cat toy with you And though you die, bird, you have a fine view"
Then in my hot She slumped her sick We tramped the poison oak Heartbroke and
The dogs snapping And you cuffed their I climbed the tree-house 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 and up and flew (while, in the world that moves, often According to the hoarding of clues Dogs run roughly around Little 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 everything Life is 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 when I got wise But I can't certainty say we survived
Then down, and And down, and And down, and without sound The flames You endless
fire below, and fire above, and fire within Sleeped through the things that couldn't have been if you have been
And when the moves away moves away, son And why you say I was the one?
All my bones 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 inches 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 when the bough breaks, what'll you for me? A little cabin to rest on your knee What'll I do with a trinket such as Think of 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 you truly, or I love 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 to be right behind 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