And Also The Trees

I hear voices from another morning And in the sunlight I feel the room grow Windows, white curtained and smooth walls But the night leaves her on the floors Of a mansion hall And the feet on the floors I must get up off the floors Off the floors... off...

My dead lords...my dead lords Your strange ringed fingers turn, Turned to knots of scented wood. From your arms that held our secrets fell the fruit My dead lords... You hold the past. And I confess the uneasiness of my love for you my lords. My ange...

For he is Count Jefferey For he is the servant of no man For he casts the shadow of fear For he is everywhere For he rides For he kicks For he takes For he leaves For he strides down the lime groves But sees only the road in front of him For he has d...

Never beginning, never ending days. Days when the ceiling is so low I cannot stand And the blunted knife presses into me. Melting in the airless heat The walls close in on me... Nudging me this way and that From one to another like nervous thunder Thudding in...

Balancing on the wind Leaning on the cliff edge wind, in limbo He watched sand running through the fingers Of his left hand into the palm of his right He sees someone walking in a hot dry wasteland Young, hesitant steps Recognised her crooked fring and n...

True or false, the life of man Beneath her dress, so soft so thin Not wicked thoughts, explains he shakes For God's sake hold the key Locks in this agony Your armes are positioned, but they are not nailed You look for the pacifist, but he went He's lost in the...

Jack went out one stormy day To see where his feet would go They took him from his sleeping town Across land both high and low They took him through the velvet streets Where men walked on their toes And down the slopes Where bottled hell And blind men...

Oh men of absolute no more The angel's taken back your golden wings Oh men of absolute no more The flag will shroud the past for you Oh men of absolute no more Time has come to break and fly Oh men the drawn it beats no more And down the wild track Yo...

In the tent of powder and lace Vultures pick at a carcass that feeds by hand Longing to decay Waits to hear the sound Of their wings slowly heave as they fly away Some will stay for days There's maps in her wrists and arms And the dust lies like snow ar...

I see it fall, I watch it fall, I let it die No anguish just the happiness shows, on the brow Look from these hidden angles an unknown language prowls I disappear, I reappear, I cannot hide Standing in this broken view, where you surround Dripping from the si...

I could be the money Scattered in the ash You could be the jewellery In the silver box In this heaven of mine I won't come back I won't come back Watch the candle burning Watch the candle drip In this heaven of mine I won't come back I won't come back... 

Lie in the pale summer heat Find a clock as it ticks Oh, to never sleep But the clock ticks so loud Like the cracking of whips Till the sun slowly heaves >From the blood hungry land To its heaven of blue Run, through the dust and the stones Like a...

On the blue-green rising, falling tide Breathing in the pebbles Sighing out the salt breeze Chaff is blowing from the stubble fields Leaving the dried earth land it threads the gate Tunnel hedges Old man's beard Sticking to the wild plums Old man's bea...

Winter words blow the trees Creatures trapped have to fall Hear their howls claw the sky Whispers follow Shantell Shantell sleeps, tables creak Mirrors start to speak Branches scratch, tap the panes Whispers follow Shantell 

Material folds From rough, modest clothes Slabs of cold sacred stone The peasant girl kneels In strips of feeble water light Slim fingers clasped Warm steady, precise The unwanted love for a murder In strips of feeble water light Echoed sighs Soft madonna eyes...

The day flees the town with a drunkard's yell Silence from the slaughterhouse And the midnight bell Shudders down Shambles alley Slamming shutters And the market litter flies Newspaper acrobats, straw and rags Whirl up to Tom's window... And away Simp...

Somewhere the blast furnace explodes Plumes of amber in the night sky Each explosion bounces From horizon to horizon From horizon... to horizon And for a while, the slow pulse boy Stood by the window And let the fire sink into his skin Again all was st...

The boy walked round the jagged rocks caught between ideals and desires He sinks into oblivion And there was silence, as he sat so still Averted face stares at the floor So this is silence So this is silence Listen... the sound of laughter The frenzy and blind...

We look up, silently Without quite music My face four days old You look newborn There's fear in your frown, like mine No distance away Noticing your hand Half round my head And on my face Protecting me, protecting me Afraid of your frown, don't change For me e...

Through the back door The cyclone sailed her heart Through the house she flows And lifts his bride from the ground And through the trees He clung to them both And their twisted sheets Don't know why she came here But she won't take her away. And by the vineyar...

Under amillion scattered stars From rippled earth that's cracked and sleeping Under the frozen static stars The headless clay woman's Shimmering body stands And the frost that locks her nakedness Melts away Through air that's crystal black ink shadows...

You stand beneath a racing sky You don't know why you came to The house of the heart You sit amongst the whitered flowers By the dry fountains You look at the barren world around The house of the heart The lichen covered courtyards lions Stand restless...

As a voice beneath the millpond sings >From her past the lost June days are woken And wind across the gorse slopes call Through years, where the darkness roars Until with wirl-pool panic heart she looks Out of the looking-glass And sees her standing b...

She hung her gown from the pear tree And watched it swing, Above the daisies ox-eyes Like the flapping of wings Through the blue marbled sky, From her chest... And the trickling of sweat. The midday sun slants down Around her through the leaves, Like...

The sandstone man I feel my head fall to the ground Gaping mouth and broken crown The sandstone man Through the bramble snakes That scratched away my face I see the clouds like blossom round the moon The sandstone man Nobody knows where I am I could u...

There is a place where she would always be Where the blossom snows between the cankered trees Holding his sour breath He knows she's there Watching the torrent as it flows Watching her soft white dress, it flows In the innocent breezes Smoothing the sto...

Your features Looking so happy inside Don't let them see down through the floors Ignores the quetionnaires and smiles Plays ignorant to words today The blind could not ignore your smiles Hear in your features anger talks Jagged, haggered they talk Screaming, s...

The old man's come to see The way the land lies over. Come to see the way the clouds roll. He wants to know if cowslips still grow On the hill where he kissed his girl, And if the sky turns just the same, When the wind blows from the west, Above the old...

The sails are torn We know only darkness and fear Lost eyes are searching... Searching still Oh, this endless dawn 

Transparent babies we walk like men Across the marshes and back again We seek a different view A world that's fresh and new We wait together at twilights pose Bodies dance forever, the cool dark pool She craves to swallow you Fill your lungs With fluid rare as...

It was late afternoon She sat watching never come to Vincent Crane Under the wet weather swollen door Never came She pressed her knee up Underneath the wooden table As in her midriff Dread flutters like the thread of love or pain There was a bowl of fr...

Rattled chime, slow ringing echo Roll around in virus meadow Suck enchanted nightshade twine Hear the bells beneath us chime Sinking sermon, priest head murmurs Holy words across the meadows Kissed the plagues' black rolling hand Through his lips the vi...