Symbolic Creature
Rabbits
If all of this is the world
And all my world what I know
How many times to come
How many more to come?
Close my eyes in the sun
Close my eyes to the sun
How many times to the charm?
All of this is the sum of what I know
Ginkgo
Harken back, sing to me
Show me deep inside where your fire lives
Show me how I could carry on
Sometimes strong and sometimes not
Outwardly, inwardly
Do they match, or are you just
Dreaming til they do?
Everyday another one falls
Everyday another one falls
Everyday another one falls
Like stars into the earth
You’ve been here; you’ve seen it all
Why does the fire burn inside of anyone?
In what do they believe?
In a dream came clarity
Sharper than grief, faster than inhibition
Maybe one day you’ll find me there
Living on my own
Show me now what you feel
Don’t hold back, save your apologies
Make it real
And look me in the eye
Give me something real
Give me something right at the
center of what you are
When all else falls away
Peregrine
When you move it moves me too
Something new is coming
I see ya, I see ya, I see ya
Moving through my life like a dove
Even when you fall away I find a way to find again
my anchor in the sea up above
I see ya, I see ya, I see ya
then everything I know comes undone, but the
hours are gold and flow into their own kind of
clarity soon enough
Falling, you move
Then I move too; I see the
glory in that highest
calling, that you live by
And you’re like a dove over me
like a dove over me
like a dove over me
like a dove over me
The Rain
Now the rain has come again
I’d forgotten of it since
Now the rain is pouring in
Can’t escape, it’s everything
How did you get in here?
How did you get in here?
Everything you’ve done today
Comes to you another day
Anywhere
Love in the time of looking in, give me
eye to eye, affirm my life
Where does your mind go when you feed it
Patience and clean air?
Giving up too much and giving too little
Get me in my own way
Tell me what it’s to get it right
Where does that leave me?
Take me anywhere
Take me anywhere
I can’t remember what we were like
before today
I think we could change
There’s a one in a thousand chance it goes right
everything comes aligned
Only have to get it once right
everything comes aligned
Take me anywhere
Take me anywhere
I can’t remember what we were like
before today
I think we could change
Take me anywhere
Take me anywhere
I can’t remember what we were like
before today
Provenance
Pattern moon, flower crater
Stroke of luck upon the hour
Every year, layered higher
Patience building ground
Down below, from above
Down below, from above
Boiled water, melted sugar
Learning how to be the daughter
Taking after, take from mother
All that grows in gardens
Start below, then above
Sharing food, out of love
Carry all that comes to me, on
Solid ground so easily
Circle back here
Clearer with every year
Animals, golden fables
Pose the truth when I’m unable
Understandings that we share
Bring us ever closer
So to you I will come
So to you I will come
Sour fruit, kitchen table
Wish me well if you are able
Call me by any name
I will still respond
So to you I will come
So to you I become
A blossom on our living tree
Taller than I’ll ever see
Never speak of
Implicit love
I took a walk through the woods
because things change more quickly than I can take
but here it is all the same
Fear is not part of the
rain or the snow or the ashes
Within me lies the change
It was later than I expected
When I looked up, I saw the
gold in the blue
and the rain in the sky
Only motion can break stillness
The way that cold and heat combine
Is the heart of this life
And the way that it dies
We savor the fruit of your dying
Ash
Suspension
Four in the morning, I don’t recognize
There’s a heartbeat, and there’s breathing
In the hallway, in the fabric of the curtain
Letting streetlight in
Suspended here in time
At your mercy, on the brink of your time
The way the wind blows, magnified
You don’t trust me, I’m not your choice
Am I a threat or something worse?
What is heavy, what is light?
Now I lose the strength to hide
You saw me all and felt the burden of our game
Suspended in time
What is heavy, what is light?
Repeating movements all the time
Or only once and never striking here again
Suspended from life?
Meteor
It came into view, and left us again
I feel the wind rush over me in the memory of a meteor
only a dream, only a dream that fades from view
the color and the sound slips from my memory
as close as it got, now it’s gone
It comes into view so gracefully
don’t know when it’ll leave me
but if I ever should walk alone
remind me, remind me of this way of being
where I never stop to wonder
how this all will end
Trust in me, I think that this could go
So far, so far from where we’d begun
It came into view and left us again
I feel the weight fall over me in the memory of a silhouette
twice removed from anything I could hold to a light
‘cause the the shadow of a shadow isn’t anything to talk about
when all the world is breathing and
illuminates like a meteor
if you trust it with your life
illuminates like a meteor
if you trust it with your life
if I ever should walk alone
if I ever should walk alone
remind me, remind me of this way of being
where I never stop to wonder
how this all will end
how this all will end
Alchemist
I’m here again, conversational
Friend, we use each other like we’re starving
At the end of my means, north-running
pulling all of it with me
I’m here again
Finding I again am lacking
The right shape or size of understanding
How to give a name to things
that never were named for me
The moment turns into a stone
A reason to live, or time to let go
And later warmed inside a hand
Life into jewels, remember me by my most
I’m here again, finding I again am lacking
What you want from me
Will trying again be the charm? Or is it
two by two, one by one, nothing there where we’d begun
One by one, nothing more, take me down, take me back
To when we performed for each other, back to
None by one is nothing more, take me down, take me back
Adamant in scarlet red and luster cool
Fear it always takes the form you never want it to
Emotional feature, symbolic creature
Takes the form of anything you take a liking to
But out there in the dark
Hear the sound of someone
calling to you, calling to you, your
new timeline, home to life
Yellow House
A yellow house with a wooden porch
An empty book, unlined, undrawn
It’s so far from where I dream from
So many streets we have to cross
Looks like the promise you raised me on
Work and wait, and peace will come
Oh, what a wonderful dream that is
But whether we live it depends
On whether we turn away from other dreams
And cut away a branch to let another grow
Some with pain and some with sorrow
But when I look back on my years
I only see from here that the water overflows
So let me not forget to share my luck
If I should ever see your pain
Let it be on me to not turn away but use my luck
So that you can have lighthearted joy
And know that you can depend on the dreams
That should be promised to you and promised to me
Just the same
Daylight
Don’t prove my worth with my smile
or the rose on the edge of my face
or the way I carry me and all of the
daylight, night time
warm me up, just another hour at the fire
we were watching long ago in winter
hear me out before I go
you’re the only one I ever thought I could
grow towards without
losing out on light; on
daylight, night time
warm me up, I will keep these
hours like a gift I’d always
wanted to receive
I don’t want to believe that we’ll never cross paths again, but
I don’t want to live this life only throwing away all of this
daylight, night time
daylight, night time
I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’ away from my
I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’ away from my
Fear, conviction, heritage, fascination
Longing and fulfillment
Weakness and resilience are my life
I’ll take back what was always my life
I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’ away from my
I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’, I’ll stop runnin’ away from my
Fear, conviction, heritage, fascination
Longing and fulfillment
weakness and resilience are my life
Gold
“Michelle, I listened to your song. I feel like what you’re singing doesn’t quite make sense.”
Gold, gold, everywhere you go
Gold, gold, everywhere you go
You look like you have just come from the moon
Did they know where the beginning would start?
Did they know where the beginning would start?
Could I imagine, could I ever
Could I imagine, could I ever
All that I take with me
Shows me what I should become
And what I learn is what appears
In everything I bring back here
“Hi Michelle. Nothing in particular, wanted to ask you how you are. Yeah, we kind of worry about you, okay? Take care of yourself.
Where are you going to be today? Maybe we go to San Francisco, but I don’t know where you’re going to be at certain time of the day or something.
Anyways, nothing special. Just wish you everything safe, happy, and make sure to take care of yourself. And those are the important things. And well whenever you have time you can always call my cell phone. Thanks, bye.”
At the edge everything is gold
The sea between the world you had and for that the one I know
Could I ever tell the story right?
“All for a simple life…”
“Patience, time, and love
Show me what I should become
What I learn is what appears
In everything I bring back here
Is that what you meant?”
Could I ever tell the story right?
Salt, heat, and light
A simple life