Lonely as you sleep
Will the shadow not pass?
in the driveway heat
there’s a one-eyed rabbit
They don’t make beauty like they used to in the West
There’s a lonely chrysanthemum with sunlight on its chest
and when I was up at Jesse’s picking stucco from the wall
I was still starry-eyed and didn’t take your call
A long
A long night
A long night
Just beyond my reach
we spent the summer getting nearer
On a jagged beach
It’s in the tremors you can hear it
Was there a fever in the evening that I saw?
Between the downpour and the swelling of the jaw?
And we saw roadkill in the highway in the sun
And couldn’t find a place to swim
and I will know you for a long time