Tanka – Who’s the monster now?
Cool dappled hollow, river runs beside it, ancient water-monster, bathes in a spot of brightness frozen in fear of feet, I wipe the guts of her children off my soles, monster runs to her hole.
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Mountain Lion Wind
Mountain lion wind Been whistling round our bed And I don’t know if it was something I said Or that cold mountain lion wind And I am back to where the sage brush grows And the light don’t fit me right Oh that mountain lion wind. Mountain lion wind Been whistling round my head And […]
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The harvest was done And the threshing room was full And he sorted the wheat from the Chaff in the mill And by the light of the lamp he Worked through the night Until a stranger walked in and said “Do you know how to fight?” And when that stranger comes knocking Do you know […]
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neon horizon crosses burnt electric jet fueled eclectic, some strange incense coiled thin smoke round brains
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In the picture you hid is a farm and a kid A time and a place you could fall into And inside the hall Is a mirror on the wall That’s recorded ev’ry fall And seen ev’ry time you got on your knees in vain Never/For/Ever In time This time And out in the back […]
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I took my last penny And gave it to my dolly I plucked out her eye, poor Molly dolly Everyone has got to pay For their kicks as they can get ’em A penny for an eye A dollar for a life The price is not right The price is not right I held out […]
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