Sawdust And
From the top of the Of the wide, stairs Through the rest of my Do you wait for me
a bell in my ears There's a wide roar a bell down 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
There's a in the wings this system of strings From the side while swing; See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our elbows and us buckle as we couple in endless increase As the audience
And the white dove Made love, made with love: Made with glue, and a glove, and pliers
Swings a low arc From its perch in the Settle down my desire
And the I slept I was swept up in a terrible tremor 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
me back into a tree Bind my buttons salt And fill my long ears bees please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the system of strings on the tip of my wings (cut cardboard and old magazines) Makes me warble and rise a sparrow And in the place where I stood, there is a circle of 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 the rafters And the ropes and trail after And the belfry burns sky-high
the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you make your first And in a moment of vision Doubled with the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', the dove Who was stuffed, now, with sawdust and
I to say: why the long face? Sparrow, perch and songs of long face Burro, buck and bray of long face! Sing: I will swallow your sadness and eat your clay Just to lift your face
And though it may be madness, I will take to the precious longface And though our bones may break, and our souls separate - why the face? And though our bodies recoil from the of the soil - why the long
In the trough of the are pawing like dogs Pitch we, 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 tolls - well, I believe, it tolls - for me! It for me!
And though my wrists and my seemed so easy to break Still, my dear, I would have walked you to the very of the water And they will recognise all the lines of your In the face of the daughter of the of my daughter
and darling, we will be fine, but what was yours and Appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering takes But if all just the same, then will you say my name: Say my name in the morning, so I when the wave breaks?
I wasn't born of a whistle or from a thistle at twilight No, I was all horns and thorns, out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright So: enough of terror We deserve to know And grow evermore and lighter You have seen me through But I could not undo desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, desire
From the top of the Of the wide, white Through the of my life Do you for me there