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And there was a booming you night, black airplanes flew over the sea And they were and shifting like Beached Shelled As you strained and you to see The retreat of their and blind cavalry
You froze in sand shoal Prayed for your soul Sky was a bread roll, in a milk-bowl And the bread broke, fell in bricks of wet smoke My sleeping heart woke, and my heart spoke
And there was a silence you to mean something: Run, For alive you evermore be And the plague of the greasy engines a-skulkin' Has east While left to explain them to me Released from their hairless and blind
With your hands in your pockets, stubbily To I'm unfresh, undressed and yawning Well, what is craziness? This crazy talking? You caught some small when you were sleepwalking
It was a dark dream, darlin', it's The is beneath the clover Beneath his breathing there is cold clay, A toothless choking on a feather
But I took my (fearing your fever) to the swimminghole, where there grows bitter herb That blooms but one day a by the riverside - i'd bring it here: it gently To the you've lent me
While the river was twisting and braiding, the bait And the string sobbed, as it cut through the breeze And I watched how the water was kneading so Gone Nearly slowed to a stop in this - in a frenzy coiling along the muscles beneath
Press on me: we are restless Webs of seaweed are And you call the dusk Of the of a squid Shot full of ink, you sink into your crib
Rowing along, the reeds, among the rushes I heard your song, my heart had time to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit cut and being opened Smell of a low and of a cinder smoking
And when the fire moves Fire away, son Why you say I was the one?
Scrape your knee; it is skin Makes the of violins And I cut your hair, and leave the birds all of the trimmings I am the happiest woman all women
And the as far as I can see Knee-deep, trudging The weeps; "so long"
I'm humming a song Until the is over on! on! Hold your horses back the fickle dawn
I have got some business out at the of town Candy both of my pockets down 'Til I can hardly stay afloat, from the weight of (and knowing how the common-folk What it is I do, to you, to keep you Being a woman, a woman)
But up the mountainside you're clambering Groping blindly, hungry for Picking through pocket linings - well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh
I see the blossoms broke and wet the rain Little sister, he will be again I have washed a thousand down the drain Spiders hang soaked and dangelin' Silently from all the blooming cherry In tiny nooses, safe everyone - nothing but a nuisance; now, dead and done Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we felt the spray of the We to stay till the tide rose too far We weren't afraid, cause we know you are And you that we know what you are
atoll O, incalculable and sorrow! Bawl, Sibyl sea-cow, all up in a bow
and roll; Teeth an impalpable bit of While yarrow, and hollyhock Awkwardly molt the shore
Are you My Mine
with me for awhile That's an real gun I know will lay you down As the lightning has lately
Failing this, this, Follow me, my sweetest To see what you anointed in pointing your gun
Lay it down! and slow! There is nowhere to go, up Up where the light, undiluted, is weaving in a dream At the sight of my baby, out Back on the patio watching the bats night in - while, elsewhere, estuaries of Wend, endlessly, towards unmapped
Last our picture window produced a half-word Heavy and hollow, hit by a bird We stood and watched her gape like a And pant and labour over every
I said a of prayer for some sort of rare grace Then thought I ought to her to a higher place Said: "dog nor nor cat shall toy with you And you die, bird, you will have a fine view"
Then in my hot She slumped her sick We tramped through the oak Heartbroke and
The dogs snapping And you their collars While I climbed the how I hollered! Well she'd lain, as as a stone, in my palm, for a lifetime or two
Then, saw the treetops, her head and up and flew (while, in the world that moves, often According to the hoarding of clues Dogs still run around Little of finch-down)
And the cities we passed were a wasteland But his hand in my hand made them and harmless While down in the lowlands the are all coming; We have Life is thundering blissful death In a of his fumbling green gentleness
You by, I was all alive In my doorway, we and jived And when you wept, I was See, I got when I got wise But I with certainty say we survived
Then down, and And down, and And down, and Stoke without The flames You sleeper
Through fire below, and fire above, and within Sleeped through the things that couldn't have been if you hadn't been
And when the fire moves moves away, son And why you say I was the last
All my bones are gone, gone, gone Take my bones, I don't need Cold, cold cupboard, lord, to chew on! all day on a cherry stone
Dig a hole, not three inches round your pit in a hole in the ground Weep the spot for the starving of me! Till up grow a young cherry tree
Well when the breaks, what'll you make for me? A little willow cabin to on your knee What'll I do with a trinket such as of your woman, who's gone to the west
But I'm starving and freezing in my old bed! Then i'll crawl across the flats to stroke your sweet head across the desert with no shoes on! I you truly, or I love no-one
Fire away, son Why you say I was the last one? one
Clear the room! There's a fire, a fire, a Get going, and I'm going to be behind you And if the of a woman or two, dear, Couldn't move you to heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you