Shearwater

When you fell in the rocks At the bend in the river With the blood from your nose Running hard on your fingers And through the rest of your life The electric charge Of a change in the weather You were touching my arm You were holding a feather And th

when the rooks were laid in the piles by the sides of the road, they were crashing into the aerials, hanging from the laundry lines. and, gathered in a field, they were burned in a feathering pyre, with their cold, black eyes. when the swallows fell

Went to see the new baby And we smoked weed on the back porch And lying on my back with the pool floatie "Raining Blood" just thundering forth I said, "What do you say Your parents take your place for an hour? We can drive downtown To our o

In the burning days Of unnatural light I took a long drive Into the evening On the barracks road past the generals' eyes down to the seawall where the waves stand by The enormous lull then the roar in the sky and then the searchlights over the airfie

If you stay sober, I'll put the kettle on. And you can come over, drink tea, and watch the lawn, and I'll lay you down. I'll lay you down as the lights come on in town when day is over. I wanted to die for two days in '95. I stood by the lakeside and

I had a dream that it all went fine Sound body, sound mind All of the drugs left not a mark Fine features, strong heart When I came to this place My face was pale white But all of the color Returned overnight I lost so much weight And don't I look gr

"When our column advanced, and we saw what we'd done, we were sure that we could never tell the folks back home," said my father to me, I had just turned sixteen, and we were walking from my school to his apartment alone. And he said, "You'

There's a mark where you were breathing On the whitened window pane And the snow collects in shadows On this ordinary day But I've gone away I've gone away There's a bird where I lay dreaming When you came to change the sheets And the rooms where we

You left some of your sweetness On my tongue in that evening With your husband and me I can't wait I made a book of the hour I let you out of the tower Through the murderous crowd Let the bombs fall so loud I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I ca

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Near a little garden flowers wild grasses A body's in the casket Milk is in the carton Coffee's on the brew And cars quietly pass As people here for last respects Collect to view The face of the deceased All emptied of emotion Waiting for distortions

[00:48.00] how much love can a boy contain in here? [01:01.00] how many contradictions can a girl posess up there? [01:22.00] these questions are too ambiguous, [01:33.00] try to narrow down your search. [01:46.00] somethings i know, it's hard. [01:5

Your warm sweater Your torn letters They're all that matters At the window watching the elegant traffic It's all fantastic And when you find these things that make you shine Don't let them too far outside of your life The set table The friend smiling

Shearwater Black Eyes Come down from the lion's back call down to the endless sleepers bring light to the dimming days that run in an endless stream now In the black of the eye in the heat of the act is a crack in the ice Come down from the iron whee

Now that we have pulled away is it better on the inside? And did you like the offerings on the counter, under black lights? While the stars have aligned with a light that irradiates all of us in the parallel let the temperature rise 'til the urge to