Sawdust And
the top of the flight Of the wide, white Through the rest of my Do you for me there?
There's a bell in my There's a white roar Drop a bell down the Hear it forevermore
Hear it forevermore
Drop a bell off of the it out in the sea Drowning as a rock; And mutiny
a light in the wings Hits this system of From the side while swing; See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our elbows and Makes us as we couple in endless increase As the admires
And the little dove Made with love, made love: Made with glue, and a glove, and some
Swings a low arc its perch in the dark Settle Settle down my
And the moment I slept I was swept up in a terrible Though no longer bereft, how I shook and I remember
the furthermost shake drove a murthering stake in And cleft me down through my center And I shouldn't say so, but I that it was then, or never
me back into a tree Bind my with salt And my long ears with bees please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the system of tugs on the tip of my wings (cut cardboard and old magazines) Makes me and rise like a sparrow And in the place where I stood, there is a of wood A cord or two, which you chop and you in your barrow
It is terribly good to water and chop wood Streaked with soot, booted and wild-eyed; As I through the rafters And the ropes and trail after And the belfry burns sky-high
Then the slow lip of moves across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, your pliers and glue you make your first incision And in a moment of almost-unbearable Doubled with the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', the dove Who was stuffed, now, with and diamonds
I wanted to why the long face? Sparrow, perch and play songs of face Burro, buck and bray songs of face! Sing: I will swallow your sadness and eat your clay Just to lift long face
And though it may be madness, I will take to the Your precious And though our bones they may break, and our souls - why the long And our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil - why the long
In the of the waves are pawing like dogs Pitch we, and grave, As I in my log
Then I hear a 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 would have walked you to the edge of the water And they 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 Appears to be a sandcastle that the wave takes But if it's all the same, then will you say my name: Say my name in the morning, so I know when the wave
I wasn't born of a or milked from a thistle at twilight No, I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, and upright So: enough of terror We deserve to light And evermore lighter and lighter You have seen me through But I could not undo that
Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, desire
From the top of the Of the wide, white Through the rest of my Do you for me there