Flock of Crows

It began with line dancing
A dance I didn't know at all
The onrush of two times chancing
Ecstasy before the certain fall

One crow to a tree
It's my ache to be with you
It's my ache to be with me
One crow to a tree

We strayed to secretive engagements
Between the timeless telephone calls
All too brief, the visiting arrangements
Ecstasy before the certain fall

Two crows to a tree
It's heaven just seeing you
It's heaven just seeing me
Two crows to a tree

One Sunday morning in the meadow
You had to say, but first you stalled
I was joyful, you were somewhat slow
Ecstasy before the certain fall

Three crows to a tree
The dream of sharing him with you
The dream of sharing him with me
Three crows to a tree

Others overloaded the compartments
Pushed about to let the wagons roll
A boat to a house and garden
Ecstasy before the certain fall

A flock of crows to a tree
It's not easy living with yours
It's not easy living with mine
A flock of crows to a tree

It ended by your fancying
You didn’t need me as a lover at all
The pointlessness of just friendship
Exasperation before the curtain call

One crow to a tree
It's not that I am not with you
It's that you were not with me
One crow to a tree


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Extravaganza

The bedroom blind moves to and fro

Sucked and blown

By the breeze at the open window

The sunlight shines strong and bright

Through the flickered leaves

Of fresh spring trees by young hedgerow

Tea is brewed, hot cross buns toasted

No one else about

As if a time to create a few words seeming

If it is love you want, love you shall have

My love lies sleeping

Who knows what dreams are in her dreaming

If it is doubt that you would rather read

The flowers shadows

Appear to be somewhat hidden within

Even though the hour is fair-some and early

A little music is offered

Voyageur songs from Fall Creek - Wisconsin

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Kernel

So little to remember

Only with endless words

Could I hope to do you justice

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Stem Sperm

Would you laugh with me 

Would your laugh be against me

Could you laugh

As the midnight red light turns me to a tremble

As the spirits of the night in the shadows reassemble

Should I care

That the words are no more

Than a broken lovers token

In the glare of the bare night

Poetry is written, unspoken

The fare that I paid

Is returned to the sender

Left there unopened

The ridge of peace

Is only for the riders

Who go by, so still

So quietly awoken

Would your body settle with me

Would your body wrestle against me

Could your body thrash

As the indignant right rails me to ruefully disassemble

As the spirit of flight calculates & separately does tremble

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Silver

Inevitable, is it
That your name should be on my lips
As, with my breath
I blow the mist away
From the mirror of this Monday morning

The Supernaturals
Sing to me to smile
& smile with amusement I do
As if my immaturity
Thank God could never leave me

This silver birch is related
However distant
To the one we clasped, so fleetingly
In the virgin snow
At the edge of the Russian forest

Those trees are of the same strain
As the ones our one son
Photographed on the plaza
At the entrance to the art gallery
In England's burgeoning principality

Trees and mirrors and virgin snow
That I should think of you now
In front of the misty mirror
On an ordinary otherwise Monday morning


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