Our Endless Numbered Days

God, there is gold hidden deep in the ground God, there's a hangman that wants to come around How we rise when we're born Like the ravens in the corn On their wings, on our knees Crawling careless from the sea God, there are guns growing out of our b

Will you say when I'm gone away "My lover came to me and we'd lay In rooms unfamiliar but until now" Oh oh oh oh Until now Oh oh oh oh Until now Will you say to them when I'm gone "I loved your son for his sturdy arms We both learned to cra

Give me your hand The dog in the garden row is covered in mud And dragging your mother's clothes Cinder and smoke The snake in the basement Found the juniper shade The farmhouse is burning down Give me your hand And take what you will tonight, I'll g

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms There are things that dr

Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees Love to say this to your face I'll love you only For your days and excitement What will you keep for to wear? Someday drawing you different May I be weaving in your hair? Love and some verses you

Some days her shape in the doorway Will speak to me A bird's wing on the window Sometimes I'll hear when she's sleeping Her fever dream A language on her face I want your flowers like babies want God's love Or maybe as sure as tomorrow will come Some

Did the wine make her dream Of the far, distant spring? Or a bed full of hens? Or the ghost of a friend? All the while that she wept, She'd a gun by her bed And the letter he wrote From a dry, foundered boat And the train track will take All the woun