Sawdust And
From the top of the Of the wide, stairs Through the rest of my Do you wait for me
a bell in my ears There's a wide roar a bell down the stairs Hear it fall
it fall forevermore
Drop a off of the dock it out in the sea Drowning mute as a And sounding
There's a light in the 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 couple in endless As the audience
And the little white Made love, made with love: with glue, and a glove, and some pliers
Swings a low arc its perch in the dark Settle down my desire
And the moment I slept I was up in a terrible tremor Though no longer bereft, how I shook and I couldn't
the furthermost shake drove a murthering stake in And me right down through my center And I shouldn't say so, but I that it was then, or never
Push me back into a Bind my with salt And fill my long with bees please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the system of strings on the tip of my wings (cut from and old magazines) Makes me warble and rise like a And in the where I stood, there is a circle of wood A cord or two, which you chop and you in your barrow
It is good to carry water and chop wood Streaked with soot, heavy booted and As I crash the rafters And the and pulleys trail after And the holiest belfry burns
Then the slow lip of fire moves the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you make first incision And in a of almost-unbearable vision over with the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', the dove Who was stuffed, now, sawdust and diamonds
I wanted to say: why the face? Sparrow, perch and songs of long face Burro, and bray songs of long face! Sing: I will swallow your and eat your cold clay Just to lift your long
And it may be madness, I will take to the grave precious longface And though our bones they may break, and our souls - why the long And our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil - why the long
In the of the waves are pawing like dogs Pitch we, and grave, As I in my log
Then I hear a noise 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 wrists and my 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 face of the of the daughter of my daughter
and darling, we will be fine, but what was yours and Appears to be a sandcastle the gibbering wave takes But if it's all the same, then will you say my name: Say my name in the morning, so I know when the breaks?
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked a thistle at twilight No, I was all and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright So: of this terror We deserve to light And grow evermore lighter and You have seen me through But I not undo that desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
From the top of the Of the wide, stairs the rest of my life Do you wait for me