Dead Together

Her father's land grieves but it also forgives
The red mud's ice might shine in the sage shrub's shadows
I've asked around at the deer party round the bend
And though a dog's bark and its echo set theit boundaries

She's lived in some long shadows
Now we live in long shadows

I've dug under the floor boards and searched the barn
And the barbed wire in the brush at the fence's foot

I'm trading all our holdings and the land
And every one of our wonderful nights in turns

The slow bounce of the heat will still rent the open
The kids will still fuck and fuck just to try to feel real
But she'll never not be soft and sticky as grapefruit meat
And now she's gotten as far as her kitty litter looks will get her

Undone slow and elk nude in an afternoon bath
I held close her worth and earn
And now she'll never be in debt to anyone
And we'll be woven together in earthworms
We'll be woven together in earthworms
We'll be woven together in earthworms