A calm then, the roaring wall of the eye As we sailed to the world from an insular life From the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives From the
By shadowing All the darkened fields Of forgotten words And civilian lives Violence Through the changing guards Through the grinding away And their furious
Gone from the house to the snows Like a wandering light You send a last balloon To the solemn light of the moon's eye Over the fields And the arcs of
I was a cloud I was a cloud looking down Your frantic waving Did not provoke feeling But this little one Steady your wings now, sparrow I remembered
In the burning daze 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
From the wreck of the ark To the fading day of our star The light races, the light drags The moon rises, the moon sags Over the rolling waves And your
Walk him up and down the corridors Till his arms are tired Till his lungs are tired Starve him of the air, the dimming light Till his eyes are wide Till
Come down from the lion's back Call down to the endless sleepers Give life to the dimming days That run in an endless stream now In the black of the
Effortless gulls in the wake Silver and white on the bow As the island is broken away From the world Bandages pulled from the eyes The violent surging
You were not the first to arrive Will not be the last to survive The pigs and the oxen we bound to the wheel Turn it off, turn it off You are not the
The way is to climb The way is to lie still And let the moon do Its work on your body And then to rise Forests and oceans of lives And through the way
My blistered feet turn bloody So I take to the air And I am everywhere, I am starlight Oh, I am moonlight Over burning fields and bodies I stay close
Send back the uniforms Send back the generous Reich Send us back to our lives On the waving blue wild And remove every mark Down to the waterline And
When the rooks were laid in the piles By the sides of the road Crashing into the aerials Tangled in the laundry lines And gathered in a field They were
In a power dive In a slow burn Over ancient fields Over islands From the slope and the rise Of the mainland Unfamiliar shapes Through the atmosphere
How could I have seen them Their faces and distant lives Shells in the ocean Just a mark Laid on the map lines To drown in the ocean's rise Or burn in
The hunter's star Burns brighter than all Of the suns of the firmament As through the sky he raged With his hook and blade And the world unmade As forests
When you were a child, you were a tomboy And your mother laughed at the serious way That you looked at her And from your window at night There were the
