Sawdust And
From the top of the Of the wide, white the rest of my life Do you for me there?
There's a bell in my There's a wide roar Drop a bell the stairs Hear it forevermore
Hear it forevermore
Drop a bell off of the it out in the sea Drowning mute as a And mutiny
a light in the wings Hits this system of From the while they swing; See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our elbows and Makes us as we couple in endless increase As the audience
And the little dove Made with love, made with Made with glue, and a glove, and pliers
a low sickle arc From its perch in the 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 couldn't
Then the furthermost shake a murthering 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 back a tree Bind my buttons with And fill my long ears with please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the of strings tugs on the tip of my wings (cut cardboard and old magazines) Makes me and rise like a sparrow And in the place I stood, there is a circle of wood A cord or two, which you and you stack in your barrow
It is terribly to carry water and chop wood Streaked with soot, booted and wild-eyed; As I crash the rafters And the ropes and trail after And the holiest burns sky-high
Then the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie precision While, somewhere, your pliers and glue 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, sawdust and diamonds
I wanted to say: why the long Sparrow, perch and play songs of face Burro, buck and songs of long face! Sing: I swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay Just to lift your face
And though it may be madness, I will take to the Your longface And though our bones they may break, and our souls - why the face? And though our bodies recoil the grip of the soil - why the long
In the of the waves Which are pawing dogs we, pale-faced and grave, As I in my log
Then I hear a noise the hull Seven out to sea And it is the bell!
And it - well, I believe, that it tolls - for me! It for me!
And though my and my waist seemed so easy to break Still, my dear, I would have you to the very edge of the water And they will all the lines of your face In the of the daughter of the daughter of my daughter
and darling, we be fine, but what was yours and mine Appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering 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 whistle or milked from a thistle at No, I was all horns and thorns, out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright So: enough of this We to know light And evermore lighter and lighter You would have seen me But I could not undo that
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, desire
the top of the flight Of the wide, white Through the rest of my Do you for me there