A circle’s round
With & without
We go out today counting the winter buds
I’m counting on you now to be around
And all of the dust is falling down
All of the leaves, all of the sound
That was you and there you were
That was you and there you were
Smiling little one, smiling little one
Smiling little one, smiling little one
And there you were, and there you were
And there you were, and there you were
Gold in the rain
Gold in the rain
And all of the dust is falling down
All of the leaves, all of the sound
If I hold it all, can I let it go?
If I hold it all, can I let it go? Well,
all it ever was, all it ever was
all it ever was, all it ever was is
Already gone
Already gone, so
come; let me be around
I’m counting on you now to be around
Remember, we were there with you
Remember, we were there with you
Remember
When the fruit
When the taste lingers on
of the treasure and the fruit
when the fruit doesn’t fall
It comes back to you
If a line in the dark
draws a shadow and you cross
do you know when you’ve crossed
if it doesn’t show?
By ear and by eye you start to see
A body that climbs can start to break
At the top of a high
There’s a treasure and a fruit
But the fruit doesn’t fall so you find
it comes back to you
You’re shaking like a child
You fall you fall you break and start to climb
In a place there’s a door and a shadow
So you cry for the rest
And you look for an answer
It’s the same as before
So you find
It comes back to you
Forgettable Consequence
When you lean it close it appears
The animal, the other fear
The first day of your life coming back to you
In another life, were you welcome here?
Forgettable consequence
I see you letting time make fear in you
Oh it comes and goes, it comes and goes
In a matter of time
Oh it comes and goes, it comes and goes
In a matter of time
Peripheral
Among the things that I want are
An openness with no measure
Too large to ever contain me
So that this freedom lingers
Flawless by definition
The circle contains, or is it
what excludes me
Protector or pain?
Give me, give me what I ask you for
Measure my life in pieces, in halves
A whole when we’re together
I keep my eyes closed and hold out both hands
Show me what you mean when you say I’m not peripheral
There, there, in between lines is my sense of
You, there, in between lines - I think it
Feels like falling, feels like falling
Feels like falling into place, with you
Along the edge of the perception
The patterns fill what you see
The signal sent on receipt was
A broken message but
I know, I know, that the distance from the origin
Blurs intentionality and makes you a stranger, so
Don’t try too hard to make sense of
Wordless, wordless gestures
under your breath there
There, lies your life
The pieces of you that take me
so far away from where I started from
There, there, in between lines is my sense of
You, there, in between lines - I think it
Feels like falling, feels like falling
Feels like falling into place, with you
Enter now: blinking tunnel lights
you talked continuously
alternating patterns on your face
light, dark, light, dark
This extraordinary energy, want
more time, more time with you
suddenly the sun is steep; caught
off guard, off guard
We were going somewhere I’d never been
brought my mind and body
in that place unfolded so much
freedom, so I was afraid
That you wouldn’t find me there
And I would falter on my own
time it passes right or wrong
Time it passed me all along
If I should get more than I give
would I be safe from feeling I need more from ya?
Time it passes right or wrong
Time it passed me all along
Disposition
Approaching recognition
Will it teach me
How to move forwards and backwards at once
How to move forwards and backwards at once?
Count down to the silence
Count down to the silence
Will it teach me
How to be all of myself on my own?
If we should do it all again
would we still fall into the same hard old rhythm?
time it passes right or wrong
Time it passed me all along
If I should get more than I give
would I be safe from feeling I need more from ya?
Time it passes right or wrong
Time it passed me all along
Time it passes right or wrong
Time it passes right or wrong
Time it passes right or wrong
Time it passed me all along
So the deer
As the hart to the water
So the deer comes to rest
Always of the nature
To die and heal
To change
And so I come to rest
Autumn passing
Autumn leaves, I fix to you the image of relief
When mind and matter work as one I see the river in passing
Now I fix to you the image of relief
When mind and matter work as one I see the river in passing
Skylight, moon bright, object of mind
Perceive, follow object of mind
And all of the others
They cannot compare, no
They cannot compare
All the others could not compare
What are matters of the mind;
Are they body or more?
When you cry I will love you
Irises
I want to believe that by any other name
Your nature stays indifferent
Heals a bruise all the same
Resilient in its reverence
Diamonds marked deliberate
But mud and stone are accidents
Some are wild, others tame
But who can know their essence?
If you were a rose by any other name
What would it change within you?
By the law, communicates
That symmetry should follow
Break the tie, there between
The cloth and bone from underneath
Take the wild, set it free,
Invite it home so carefully
If I were a rose by any other name
What would it change within you?
Standing there, holding on
Irises in a storm
What do you treat with endless care?
What breaking feels unthinkable?
What do you feel is closest to
Your nature and desire?
To live a life what has to give?
What is consumed to further you?
Of all the lives that you could live
What is the one that chooses you?
Take a moment, bring it here
Count the faces
Time, listen, here it comes
Now
Starry Night
Starry night I ask for more
light like the sound of a gate that closes
tonight it’s in your eyes again
sink with me now
and dance to a tune that is lost
before we rise again
before we rise again
Starry night could I ask for more
shows me the sights of the life I’ve chosen
clarity and color in motion
don’t stop me now
I see it as never before
and so I rise again
save it all but give it to me in the end
So quietly it comes
so quietly it comes
if they ever ask I’ll
keep it to myself alone
save it for another
save it for another
save it for another
day when all my luck is gone
My eye discovers the questions and answers
Patterns and purpose, collected and scattered
So draw me like an arrow
perfected intention
One long line flows in and out of me
Continues on and on
It travels on and on and on
You say (and so I rise again)
You know (and so I rise again)
Its name/say we rise again
Say we rise again, then
Oh, would I know my name?
Could I hold it all?
Would I know my worth?
Can I count on you?
Can I ask of you?
Don’t let me down
Down, down, down
Save it all, save it all, save it all
Clarity and color in motion
Don’t stop me now
I see it as never before
All of my dreaming left to the fog
All of my dreaming left to the fog
Wildflowers
Oh, waiting for flowers that in the dark force their way open
I play in the space that you hold for the words with no names
Clarity, color, motion
Wildflowers appear
Nisene Marks
In a matter of moments I open up
Going back to that place
So familiar to watch my
life come into view
Echoes of the other times
The same place or the same kind
Taking form, folding into an
Offering of the same type
The same place and the same kind, the tone with
which you gave me advice, tells me
you learned of the same kind
From someone precious to you
To you
I wish you didn’t have to be tough to get through this
But at the same time
We float on our backs, and we still see the sun
I’m alive
The colors and lines turn into one
It’s alright, we’re the same kind
If you hold me to everything you hold yourself to
We’ll be alright
Mockingbird
You ask me, to know my worth
And I say “look at me I know
Respect is easy given
From the fearful, how to
take it is my lesson to learn everyday
Help along the way
Goes a long way
Would you help me
Take it all to heart?”
Away, along the way I stopped and
Thought of where we’ve been, the ways
in which our languages so different said the same things
You mimic me and I react and think about your intentions
It’s the same way that you ask me
If this is what is love
It’s the same way that you ask me
If you would have me by another other name
Who would I be to you?
At dawn the mockingbird
is always singing
playing with the
silence in our world as we
wake and start
another day of
pulling apart and drawing closer
often alternating
the way we sway it pulls me closer
so I close my eyes again
The other shore
Where was the sky or the star all along
Or the shore at the end of the road?
Oh speak to me, and the flower appears
We don’t have to run anymore
We don’t have to run anymore
Was there a time or was time never wrong
Can you show me the way to the shore?
Speak to me and the flower appears
We don’t have to run anymore
We don’t have to run anymore
Away, away to the sea we go
Away, all the way
I saw the night sky in the morning
Holding everything
Every flight and fall at once
In its emptiness
Comfort me (with), comfort me (my)
Comfort me (own), comfort me (arms, oh)
Where was the sky or the star all along
Or the shore at the edge of the road?
Was there a time or was time never wrong
Can you show me the way to the shore?
Comfort me, comfort me
Where was the sky?
Comfort me, comfort me
How I wanted to be, how I wanted to be
On a starry night
So sure of what I know I will remember
Remember