Sawdust And
From the top of the Of the wide, white the rest of my life 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
a bell off of the dock it out in the sea Drowning mute as a And mutiny
There's a in the wings Hits system of strings the side while they swing; 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 little white Made with love, with love: Made with glue, and a glove, and pliers
Swings a low arc From its in the dark Settle down my desire
And the moment I slept I was swept up in a tremor Though no longer bereft, how I shook and I couldn't
Then the shake drove a murthering stake in And cleft me right down through my And I shouldn't say so, but I know it was then, or never
Push me back into a Bind my buttons salt And fill my long ears 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 and rise like a sparrow And in the place where I stood, is a circle of wood A or two, which you chop and you stack in your barrow
It is terribly good to carry water and wood Streaked with soot, heavy and wild-eyed; As I through the rafters And the and pulleys trail after And the holiest burns sky-high
Then the lip of fire moves across the prairie with 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, with and diamonds
I to say: why the long 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 though it may be madness, I take to the grave Your precious And though our bones may break, and our souls separate - why the long And our bodies recoil from 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
I hear a noise from the hull Seven out to sea And it is the bell!
And it tolls - well, I believe, that it - for me! It for me!
And though my wrists and my waist seemed so to break Still, my dear, I would have walked you to the edge of the water And they will recognise all the lines of your In the face of the of the daughter of my daughter
and darling, we will be fine, but was yours and mine Appears to be a that the gibbering wave takes But if it's all the same, then will you say my name: Say my in the morning, so I know when the wave breaks?
I wasn't born of a whistle or from a thistle at twilight No, I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and So: of this terror We deserve to know And grow evermore lighter and You would have me through But I could not undo desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, desire
From the top of the Of the wide, white Through the of my life Do you wait for me