love knot tied

Selected Lyrics

Gone Again

One last breath

Hole in life

Love knot tied

Braid undone

Beneath the Southern Cross

Oh

To be

Not

Anyone

Gone

This maze

Of being

Skin

(for Oliver Ray)

About a Boy

Toward another he has gone to breathe an air beyond his own

Toward a dream that dreams itself about a boy beyond it all

(for Kurt Cobain)

My Madrigal

We waltzed beneath motionless skies

All heaven's glory turned in your eyes

We expressed such sweet vows

Till death do us part

We waltzed beneath God's point of view

Knowing no ending to our rendezvous

We expressed such sweet vows

Till death do us part

We waltzed beneath motionless skies

All heaven's glory turned in your eyes

You pledged me your heart

Till death do us part

Dead to the World

With a strange way of walking

And a strange way of breathing

Less than a breath of shimmer and smoke

The life in his fingers unwound my existence

Dead to the world alive I awoke

Ravens

Before our feet a feather drifts

Beyond us it will fall

‘Cause time will bid and make us rise

Make ravens of us all

Oh there are places I agree

Where I have yet to roam

The Egyptian field the arctic sea

Where shadows haunt and moan

But none but sky I have to go

Should I return to thee

Gone to where the feather flies

Till I a raven be

Farewell Reel

(This little song’s for Fred)

It's been a hard time and when it rains,  it rains on me.
The sky just opens and when it rains, it pours.
I walk alone, assaulted it seems by tears of heaven,
And darling I can't help thinking those tears are yours.

Our wild love came from above, and wilder still is the wind that howls like a voice that knows it's gone, ‘cause darling you died, and well I cried, but I'll get by,
Salute our love and send you a smile and move on.

So darling farewell, all will be well and then all will be fine,
The children will rise strong and happy be sure,
Cause your love flows and the corn still grows
And God only knows we're only given as much as the heart can endure.

But I don't know why, but when it rains, it rains on me
The sky just opens and when it rains, it pours.
But I look up and a rainbow appears like a smile from heaven
And darling I can't help thinking that smile is yours

1959

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above

Desolation angels served it up with love

(about the invasion of Tibet)

Death Singing

In a straw-colored light

In light rapidly changing

On a life rapidly fading

(for Benjamin 1960-1999 of the band Smoke)