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20070125 - X

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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Can you bear, can you bear to know?
How close can you stand to look into your lover's soul?


Ants bathe in the batter, germs hang in the air,
just because we never see them, doesn't mean they aren't there.
In our greenhouse winter fifties, aging graceful into ghosts,
you in your butcher's paper nighty, me in my second frost.
I descended like an iceage retreated in the light,
ambushed in the evening, surrendered to the night.
We swore there'd be a clearing somewhere through the trees,
somewhere under Atlantis, pregnant with the sea.
Silos full of oranges, bruised under the tree.
A pinched hose imagines rainbows. Trees imagine leaves.


Can you bear, can you bear to know?
How close can you stand to look into your lover's soul?
How close can you stand to look the blood up in the snow?


Soul is a rhyme a dozen, cry your eyes out red as coals,
the tears all drag their feet, they put on a little show.
Losing track and keeping track of every kiss we've kissed,
of every hand we've buttoned, like a foglight in the mist.
Let me out of your sight, I will let you out of mine.
Close your eyes, the count of three, I won't cheat this time.


Can you bear, can you bear to see?
How deep can you stand to rifle through your lover's leaves?




DAS - Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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