Noni s Field
When I closed my eyes in Noni s field
We were lying on our backs.
I dreamt that the ground split a seam,
Our spirits, floating.
When no longer tied into our bodies,
We left them wrapping as a sign,
to slip into the crack.
Tired and ready to go.
But I don t know what goes on.
I touched my grandfather s face, he lay fixed in his casket.
He lay sewn shut and folded so that none could refuse it.
They had posed, they had painted him.
I laughed. I let him go.
His cheeks washed like watercolor sunlight, evening time.
I could never put my hands back to them.
Still, I don t know what goes on.
Will my thoughts burn in unseen patterns, form a dim glow in your mind
Long after you remember who it was that I looked like?
Oh Oh Oh Oh
We saw the sky, swarming full with the light that the fireflies made.
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An accidental constellation.
You, how will you go?
Out through your mouth in a sigh?
Into a space we don t know.
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
(Awesome String Part)
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D|-5---------------4-----2----------|
A|---7-5-7-5---5--------------------|
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