Sawdust And
the top of the flight Of the wide, white Through the rest of my Do you for me there?
There's a in my ears a wide white roar Drop a bell the stairs Hear it fall
Hear it forevermore
Drop a bell off of the it out in the sea Drowning as a rock; And sounding
a light in the wings Hits this of strings the side while they swing; See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our elbows and us buckle as we couple in endless increase As the admires
And the white dove Made with love, with love: Made with glue, and a glove, and pliers
Swings a low arc its perch in the dark Settle Settle my desire
And the moment I slept I was swept up in a tremor Though no longer bereft, how I shook and I couldn't
Then the furthermost shake drove a stake in And me right down through my center And I shouldn't say so, but I know it was then, or never
Push me into a tree Bind my buttons salt And fill my long ears with please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the system of strings tugs on the tip of my (cut cardboard and old magazines) Makes me and rise like a sparrow And in the place where I stood, is a circle of wood A cord or two, you chop and you stack in your barrow
It is terribly good to carry water and chop Streaked soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed; As I through the rafters And the and pulleys trail after And the holiest belfry burns
the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and you make your first incision And in a moment of almost-unbearable Doubled over the hunger of lions me close', cooed the dove Who was stuffed, now, with sawdust and
I to say: why the long face? Sparrow, perch and play of long face Burro, buck and bray of long face! Sing: I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold to lift your long face
And though it may be madness, I will to the grave precious longface And though our bones they may break, and our separate - why the long And our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil - why the face?
In the of the waves are pawing like dogs Pitch we, and grave, As I in my log
Then I a noise from the hull days out to sea And it is the bell!
And it - well, I believe, that it tolls - for me! It for me!
And though my wrists and my waist seemed so easy to Still, my dear, I have walked you to the very edge of the water And will recognise all the lines of your face In the face of the daughter of the of my daughter
and darling, we will be fine, but what was and mine to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes But if it's all just the same, then will you say my Say my name in the morning, so I when the wave breaks?
I wasn't born of a or milked from a thistle at twilight No, I was all horns and thorns, out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright So: of this terror We deserve to know And grow evermore lighter and You would have me through But I not undo that desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
From the top of the Of the wide, white the rest of my life Do you wait for me