Sawdust And
From the top of the Of the wide, stairs Through the rest of my Do you wait for me
There's a bell in my There's a white roar Drop a down the stairs Hear it fall
Hear it fall
Drop a bell off of the it out in the sea Drowning mute as a And sounding
a light in the wings Hits this system of From the side while they See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our and knees Makes us buckle as we couple in endless As the audience
And the white dove Made with love, with love: 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 remember
the furthermost shake 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
Push me back into a my buttons with salt And fill my ears with bees please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the system of strings tugs on the tip of my (cut cardboard 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 chop and you stack in your
It is terribly good to carry water and wood with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed; As I crash through the And the ropes and trail after And the holiest belfry sky-high
Then the slow lip of fire across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and you make your first incision And in a moment of almost-unbearable Doubled with the hunger of lions me close', cooed 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 songs of long face! Sing: I will your sadness and eat your cold clay Just to your long face
And it may be madness, I will take to the grave Your longface And though our bones 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 pawing like Pitch we, and grave, As I in my log
Then I a noise from 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 have walked 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 will be fine, but what was and mine Appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering takes But if it's all just the same, then will you say my 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, sprung out formed, knock-kneed and upright So: enough of this We deserve to light And grow evermore and lighter You have seen me through But I could not undo that
Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
From the top of the Of the wide, white Through the rest of my Do you for me there