Sawdust And
the top of the flight Of the wide, stairs the rest of my life Do you for me there?
a bell in my ears There's a white roar Drop a bell down the Hear it forevermore
Hear it fall
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 From the side while they See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our and knees Makes us buckle as we in endless increase As the admires
And the white dove with love, made with love: Made with glue, and a glove, and pliers
Swings a low arc its perch in the dark Settle down my desire
And the moment I I was swept up in a terrible tremor Though no longer bereft, how I and I couldn't remember
Then the furthermost shake drove a stake in And me right down through my center And I shouldn't say so, but I that it was then, or never
Push me back a tree Bind my buttons with And my long ears with bees please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the of strings tugs on the tip of my wings (cut from and old magazines) Makes me warble and like a sparrow And in the place where I stood, is a circle of wood A cord or two, which you and you stack in your barrow
It is terribly good to carry and chop wood Streaked with soot, booted and wild-eyed; As I crash through the And the ropes and pulleys trail And the holiest belfry sky-high
Then the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you your first incision And in a moment of almost-unbearable Doubled over the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', cooed the Who was stuffed, now, sawdust and diamonds
I wanted to say: why the face? Sparrow, perch and play songs of long Burro, buck and bray of long face! Sing: I will swallow sadness and eat your cold clay Just to lift your face
And it may be madness, I will take to the grave Your precious And though our bones they may break, and our souls - why the long And though our bodies recoil the grip of the soil - why the face?
In the trough of the 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 to break Still, my dear, I would have you to the very edge of the water And they will recognise all the of your face In the face of the daughter of the daughter of my
and darling, we will be fine, but what was yours and Appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave But if it's all the same, then will you say my name: Say my name in the morning, so I know when the breaks?
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a at twilight No, I was all horns and thorns, out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright So: of this terror We deserve to light And grow lighter and lighter You would have me through But I could not that desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
the top of the flight Of the wide, white the rest of my life Do you for me there