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And, when the bulbs do flash,
as bright as morning,
the crowd keeps on gathering
like an electric storm.
Have One On Me (2010)
It is too short —
the day we are born,
we commence with our dying.
Have One On Me (2010)
We are blessed and sustained by what is not said
Have One On Me (2010)
The tap of hangers,
swaying in the closet —
unburdened hooks
and empty drawers —
and everywhere I tried to love you
is yours again,
and only yours.
Have One On Me (2010)
By the time you read this
I will be so far away
Daddy longlegs, how in the world
Am I to be expected to stay?
Have One On Me (2010)
In this life, who did you love,
beneath the drifting ashes,
beneath the sheeting banks of air
that barrenly bore our rations?
Have One On Me (2010)
We broke our hearts,
in the war between
St. George and the dragon,
but both, in equal part,
are welcome to come along.
I'm inviting everyone.
Have One On Me (2010)
I may have changed, it's hard to gauge
Time won't account for how I've aged
Would that I could tie your lying tongue
Who says that leaving keeps you young.
Have One On Me (2010)
With the loneliness
of you mighty men,
with your mighty kiss
that might never, never end,
while, so far away,
in the seat of the West,
burns the fount
of the heat
of that loneliness.
Have One On Me (2010)
Driven through by her own sword,
summer died last night, alone.
Have One On Me (2010)
A feather of a hawk was bound
Bound around my neck
A poultice made of fig
The eager little vultures pecked
Have One On Me (2010)
This is the song for Baby Birch.
I will never know you.
And at the back of what we've done,
there is that knowledge of you.
Have One On Me (2010)
And if you come and see me,
you will upset the order.
You cannot come and see me,
for I set myself apart.
But when you come and see me,
in California,
you cross the border of my heart.
Have One On Me (2010)
Coats of bouclé, jacquard and cashmere;
cartouche and tweed, all silver shot —
and everything that could remind you
of how easy I was not.
Have One On Me (2010)
Hung from the underbelly of the Earth
While the stars skid away below
Gormless and brakeless; gravel-loose
Falling silent as gavels in the snow.
Have One On Me (2010)
But it can make you feel over, and old
(Lord, you know it's a shame),
when I only want for you to pull over,
and hold me,
till I can't remember my own name.
Have One On Me (2010)
And, for the sake of that pit of snakes,
for whom did you allay your shyness,
and spend all your mercy, and madness, and grace,
in a day, beneath the bending cypress?
Have One On Me (2010)