Sawdust And
From the top of the Of the wide, white Through the rest of my Do you wait for me
a bell in my ears There's a wide white Drop a bell down the Hear it fall
Hear it forevermore
Drop a off of the dock it out in the sea Drowning as a rock; And mutiny
There's a in the wings Hits this 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 little dove Made with love, with love: Made with glue, and a glove, and some
Swings a low arc From its perch in the Settle Settle down my
And the moment I slept I was up in a terrible tremor Though no bereft, how I shook and I couldn't remember
Then the furthermost drove 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 with salt And fill my long 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) me warble 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 stack in your
It is terribly good to carry 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 fire across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your and glue you make your first incision And in a of almost-unbearable vision over with the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', cooed the Who was stuffed, now, with sawdust and
I wanted to say: why the long Sparrow, perch and play of long face Burro, buck and songs of long face! Sing: I will swallow your and eat your cold clay Just to lift long face
And though it may be madness, I take to the grave Your longface And though our they may break, and our souls separate - why the long And though our bodies from the grip of the soil - why the face?
In the of the waves Which are 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 so easy to break Still, my dear, I would have walked you to the very edge of the And will recognise all the lines of your face In the face of the daughter of the of my daughter
and darling, we be fine, but what was yours and mine Appears to be a 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 whistle or milked from a at twilight No, I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and So: of this terror We deserve to light And grow evermore lighter and You have seen 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 wait for me