i do not sing the storm. i do not sing rage, wraththe lightning bolt, the scream. Despair i do not sing i do not sing struggle–revenge…
only i have bitten your lips
an angry wind blows by and sets you hair on firelike autumn leaf in flames you’re dragged on trails of ashesa rain falls over us, a rain…
by pallid balladeers, by wounded boys in flamesby sad, downhearted kings or by modern guitars:how many lines of love have been declared away…
you are sweet as the water of a woman’s sweet riverthat showers with its flowing every beautiful night:sweet as the coffee flower whose breath is…
oh innocent word oh shady hairoh dark flower whose fragrant flapping wounds the skin of the souloh cold mouthlike…
as free as crying soul enclosed deeply in a graveas free as wounded blood that runs away from veinsas free as infant’s cry fleeing the cradle’s…
“good night little onedon’t open your eyes:it’s i, your unquiet, sick dad
long ago by the good willof a Californian towna good worker was smilingfor the first time in his lifehe was forty & he…
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