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And there was a booming you That night, black flew over the sea And they lowing and shifting like Beached Shelled As you and you squinted to see The retreat of their hairless and blind
You in your sand shoal for your poor soul Sky was a bread roll, soaking in a And when the bread broke, fell in of wet smoke My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart
And there was a silence you took to something: Run, For you will evermore be And the plague of the greasy black a-skulkin' Has gone While you're to explain them to me Released their hairless and blind cavalry
With your hands in your pockets, stubbily 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 dark dream, darlin', over The firebreather is beneath the his breathing there is cold clay, forever A toothless hound-dog on a feather
But I took my (fearing your fever) to the swimminghole, where there grows bitter herb That blooms but one day a year by the - i'd bring it here: it gently To the love you've 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 coiling flush along the muscles beneath
Press on me: we are restless Webs of are swaddling And you upon the dusk Of the of a squid Shot full of ink, until you into your crib
Rowing along, among the reeds, the rushes I heard your song, before my heart had to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit cut and being opened of a low and of a lazy cinder smoking
And when the fire moves Fire away, son Why you say I was the one?
Scrape your knee; it is skin the sound of violins And when I cut your hair, and leave the 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 threshing the night is over on! on! Hold horses back from the fickle dawn
I have got business out at the edge of town weighing both of my pockets down 'Til I can hardly stay afloat, the weight of them (and how the common-folk condemn it is I do, to you, to keep you warm Being a woman, a woman)
But always up the mountainside clambering Groping blindly, for anything: Picking through pocket linings - well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh
I see the broke and wet after the rain Little sister, he be back again I have washed a thousand down the drain Spiders hang soaked and dangelin' Silently all the blooming cherry trees In tiny nooses, safe everyone - nothing but a nuisance; gone now, dead and Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we felt the spray of the We decided to till the tide rose too far We afraid, cause we know what you are And you know that we know you are
Awful O, incalculable 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 with me for 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 anointed in your gun there
Lay it down! and slow! is nowhere to go, save up Up where the light, undiluted, is weaving in a drunk At the of my baby, out back: Back on the watching the bats bring night in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, seashores unmapped
Last week our picture produced a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a bird We stood and watched her gape like a And pant and labour over intake
I a sort of prayer for some sort of rare grace Then thought I ought to take her to a higher Said: "dog nor nor cat shall 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 were snapping And you their collars While I 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 that moves, to the hoarding of these clues Dogs still run around tufts of finch-down)
And the we passed were a flickering wasteland But his in my hand made them hale and harmless While down in the lowlands the crops are all We everything Life is thundering 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 gone when I got But I can't with certainty say we
Then down, and 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 have been if you hadn't have been
And when the fire moves moves away, son And why you say I was the last
All my they are gone, gone, gone my bones, I don't need none Cold, cold cupboard, lord, to chew on! Suck all day on a cherry
Dig a little hole, not inches round your pit in a hole in the ground Weep upon the for the starving of me! up grow a fine young cherry tree
Well when the bough breaks, you make for me? A little willow cabin to rest on your What'll I do with a such as this? Think of your woman, who's gone to the
But I'm starving and in my measly old bed! Then crawl across the salt flats 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 right you And if the of a woman or two, dear, Couldn't move you to heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you