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Lovers' River
Lovers' River
I walk the river that’s made of lovers
who wished against the gods to never die
my future doesn’t know me anymore
it used to scare me blind this vision
of our parting and you growing old alone
but perhaps that wasn’t you that I saw
I know love has found you
by the way the river seems
to crawl back up the mountain
upon its hands and its knees
I’ve ceased to offer my tired body
to thread within your own
our gods no longer see eye to eye
but if memory were a lover
it would ever have your shoulders
I cry, oh god, over their precipice every night
I know love has found you
by the way we last embraced
two swirls through the stony water
and all water has to find a way
they say this river is made of lovers
who wished against the gods to never die
I walk her shore my heart parenthesized
I looked into my future
and I saw that I was not there
but it wasn’t me I was looking for anyway
I know love has found you
by the way the river seems
to crawl back up the mountain
upon its hands and its knees
I know love has found you
by the way we last embraced
two swirls through the stony water
and all water has to find a way
~ Brendan Bonsack
Age of Stone (part III)
Age of Stone (part III)
Does everybody come here
where the curtains draw
their breath from doors
propped open by your whispers?
Does everybody come here
where cars creep by
in streaks of light
sent for saving troubled vessels?
Don't tell me I'm the first
Don't tell me I'm the last
Just kiss me into the age of stone
and lie with me here
while all the other ages pass
Does everybody come here
to leave a thumbprint in
a glass of gin
and a hairline in your shower?
Does everybody come here
by your ceiling rose
how it blooms a slow
tango through the nightfall?
Don't tell me I'm the first
Don't tell me I'm the last
Just kiss me into the age of stone
and lie with me here
while all the other ages pass
Don't tell me I'm the first
Don't tell me I'm the last
and please don't tell me
That everybody comes here
to your favorite song
and the record long
played into the run out groove
That everybody comes here
to inscribe their nom
de plume upon
a placing at your table
Don't tell me I'm the first
Don't tell me I'm the last
Just kiss me into the age of stone
and lie with me here
while all the other ages pass
~ Brendan Bonsack
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Two Suns Once
Static of Crows
The Lodger
Favourite Dinosaur
Silence in the Library
Iso Haircut
The Orbit of Your Breathing
I Don't Remember the Future
Specks on a Map
Oddities
The Gravestone Carvers
Imaginary Lines
Falling Asleep with the Moon Still On
Prayers in Glass Houses
The Sea Will Take it From Here
Land
What Kind of Yes?
Long Tall Shadow
Once Was Water
The Sky that Came Before
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