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And there was a booming you That night, black flew over the sea And were lowing and shifting like Beached snails As you strained and you to see The retreat of their and blind cavalry
You in your sand shoal for your poor soul Sky was a roll, soaking in a milk-bowl And the bread broke, fell in bricks of wet smoke My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart
And there was a silence you took to something: Run, For alive you evermore be And the of the greasy black engines a-skulkin' Has east While left to explain them to me Released from their hairless and blind
With hands in your pockets, stubbily running To where I'm unfresh, undressed and Well, is this craziness? This crazy talking? You caught some small death you were sleepwalking
It was a dream, darlin', it's over The firebreather is beneath the Beneath his breathing is cold clay, forever A hound-dog choking on a feather
But I my fishingpole (fearing your fever) Down to the swimminghole, where there grows herb That but one day a year by the riverside - i'd bring it here: it gently To the love lent me
While the river was twisting and braiding, the bait And the string sobbed, as it cut through the hustling And I watched how the water was so neatly treacly Nearly slowed to a in this heat - in a frenzy coiling flush along the muscles
Press on me: we are things Webs of are swaddling And you call upon the Of the of a squid Shot full of ink, until you into your crib
Rowing along, among the reeds, among the I heard your song, before my heart had to hush it! Smell of a stone fruit being cut and opened of a low and of a lazy cinder smoking
And when the moves away Fire away, son Why you say I was the one?
Scrape your knee; it is skin Makes the of violins And when I cut your hair, and the birds all of the trimmings I am the happiest woman among all
And the as far as I can see Knee-deep, trudging The weeps; "so long"
I'm humming a threshing Until the is over on! on! Hold your horses back from the fickle
I got some business out at the edge of town weighing both of my pockets down 'Til I can stay afloat, from the weight of them (and knowing how the common-folk What it is I do, to you, to you warm Being a woman, a woman)
But always up the mountainside you're Groping blindly, hungry for Picking through your linings - well, what is this? Scrap of sassafras, eh
I see the broke and wet after the rain sister, he will be back again I have washed a spiders down the drain Spiders ghosts hang and dangelin' Silently all the blooming cherry trees In tiny nooses, safe from - nothing but a nuisance; now, dead and done Be a woman, be a woman!
Though we the spray of the waves We decided to stay till the tide too far We weren't afraid, we know what 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, heather and molt along the shore
Are you My anymore?
Stay with me for That's an awfully gun I know will lay you down As the lightning has done
this, failing this, Follow me, my friend To see what you in pointing your gun there
Lay it down! and slow! There is to go, save up Up the light, undiluted, is weaving in a drunk dream At the of my baby, out back: Back on the patio watching the bats night in - while, elsewhere, of wax-white Wend, endlessly, seashores unmapped
Last week our picture window produced a Heavy and hollow, hit by a brown We and watched her gape like a rattlesnake And pant and labour over every
I said a sort of for some sort of rare grace Then I ought to take her to a higher place Said: "dog nor vulture nor cat shall toy you And though you die, bird, you have a fine view"
Then in my hot She slumped her weight We tramped through the oak Heartbroke and
The dogs were And you cuffed collars While I the tree-house how I hollered! Well lain, as still as a stone, in my palm, for a lifetime or two
Then, saw the treetops, cocked her and up and flew (while, back in the world moves, often According to the of these clues Dogs run roughly around tufts of finch-down)
And the cities we passed were a flickering But his hand in my hand made hale and harmless While down in the lowlands the are all coming; We everything Life is thundering blissful towards In a of his fumbling green gentleness
You stopped by, I was all In my doorway, we shucked and And you wept, I was gone: See, I got gone I got wise But I can't with certainty say we
Then down, and And down, and And down, and without sound The blameless You endless
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 moves away moves away, son And why you say I was the last
All my they are gone, gone, gone Take my bones, I don't need Cold, cold cupboard, lord, to chew on! Suck all day on a stone
Dig a hole, not three inches round Spit your pit in a in the ground Weep upon the for the starving of me! Till up grow a fine cherry tree
Well when the bough breaks, what'll you for me? A little cabin to rest on your knee What'll I do a trinket such as this? 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 Come the desert with no shoes on! I love you truly, or I no-one
Fire away, son Why you say I was the last one? one
Clear the room! a fire, a fire, a fire Get going, and I'm going to be right you And if the of a woman or two, dear, move you to such heights, then all I can do Is do, my darling, by you