one flesh

soft dark against the window

Soft mark of sleep in eyes

Odd mute remainders

In the morning light

Who am I now that we are one?

Who am I now that

Who am I now that we are one?

Who am I now that

The gently risen Sun is taking turns

Kissing us

The back room

You‘ve stolen my heart

With the red and brown

You carry round the yard

I’m holding my cards

I’m all in

It wasn’t hard

While I’m in the back room

You watch them paint it back again

Love is holding open

More than any words we said

I scolded myself

For anytime I thought

I could be somewhere else

You’re Holding the threads

Of everything I want

And everything I dread

Cause when I’m in the back room

You might wander off the frame

Like love’s not holding open

More than any words we say

Like love’s not holding open

More than any words we say

The kiss

Given teeth like a moth

A love that’s pale will wear out like cloth

For a sound love

Be brave as wolves be sweet as a dove

Your fingers on my face

Our bodies form a lace

Mmm I met you in the cold of night

I let you kiss my cheek

For fear that lips would terrify

This place is haunted by things that change

When what is wanted is a love

that stays the same

Well it‘s like your mother said

We’ll know them by their fruit

And the way they make their bed

Your fingers on my face

The plum of our embrace

I’d give anything to adore you

I’d give anything to be for you

I lay at your feet and implore you

To take me as I am

This place is haunted by things that change

When what is wanted is a love

That stays the same

This place is haunted by things that change

When what is wanted is a love

That stays the same

Yours is a love that stays the same

The quickening

Your first touch

Your first sound

Mmm mmm

If there’s a way to stay home

Keep my world wound round yours

I will

So small a one

Your start is all my call

Your heart is steering all

My dreams now

Mmm

Your first move

Yours was true

And soft in me

Mmm mmm

If there’s a way to stay whole

Keep my soul wound round yours

I will

So small a one

Your start is all my call

Your heart is steering all

My dreams now

Mmm

Orchid’s fable

When you were born and tied to me

I would close my eyes and see what you saw

Move how you moved

As distance grows between us

My love is never fleeting

And every hour teaches grace

For one of the angels

One of the angels

Whose arms will hold and keep you warm

when you grow tall and leave us for

Your own fields, for your own seas

One of the angels

Hey I’m a wildflower, bold as I’m able

lend me the heart of the girl in the fables

And I’ll meet you in the stars

And I’ll meet you in the starlight

And I’ll meet you in the stars

And I’ll meet you in the starlight

And I’ll meet you in the stars

And I’ll meet you in the

Isle of ferns

Kiss it where it hurts

Your love should stain your words

Like berries on our shirts

In the summertime

If you tell me I’m the one

I could be your only one

On an isle of ferns

With a witness and two words

I put my heart to yours

For all time

I’ll be your only one

And you’ll be my only

you'll be my only one

The world well lost for lover’s fate

A pleasing cost to know your face

The world well lost for lover’s fate

A pleasing cost to know your face

On cotton clouds

wide eyes, long limbs

soft sighs, fresh skin

We gave you a name

You gave us a home

Take all my rest

All my warmth, it is yours

The waiting world

Will wait for now

Till then it’s us

On cotton clouds

Your scent is the last thing

I said I love

Before we fell asleep

Your smile is the sweetest

Of shapes I know

Your laugh can make

Me weep

The waiting world

Will wake up soon

Till then it’s us

In our cocoon

Your scent is the last thing

I said I love

Before we fell asleep

Your smile is the sweetest

Of shapes I know

Your laugh can make

Me weep

Blood debt

Words bud silent

To Lily or iris

This is sure June sun

This is blood debt to love

Sure June sun to come

This is sure June sun

This is blood debt to love

Sure June sun to come

I owe it all for loving you

On the way to the water

On the way to the falls

On the way to the water

On the way to the falls

On the way to the water

On the way to the falls

Saw myself as your daughter

At the end of it all

I owe it all for loving you

This is sure June sun

This is blood debt to love

Sure June sun to come

On the way to the water

On the way to the falls

On the way to the water

On the way to the falls

I owe it all for loving you

Sea of sound

Before I know your name

Before I see your face

And the ways you will change my world

Take all the quiet stops

Kiss all the corners of the mouths

Of the ones I love

your heart is all i need to hear

From the sea of sound inside me

What soft angel talk

the hour they sent you off to me

Heaven only knows

I’m not even halfway

to earning your company

But I’ll keep trying till I’m old

Your heart is all I need to hear

from the sea of sound inside me

I’ll always love you

From your sweetest smallest moves

To the last of the autumn grooves

That mark my years like trees

Your heart is all I need to hear

from the sea of sound inside me

Your heart is all I need to hear

from the sea of sound inside me

You’ll mark my years like trees

Fruska Gora

Did you forget how it works

In your grandmother’s church?

Someone who loved you since birth

Something about the mountains

I thought I’d hear you say

But you were never one for shouting

And I never wanted to stay

Did you forget how it hurts?

It was your grandfather first

He helped you find what it’s worth

Something about the altar

I thought I heard you say

“You were never one for doubting

So it’s sad to see you stray”

Did you forget what you learned

In your grandmother’s pearls?

Some things are not what they were

Something about the mountains

I thought I heard you say

“You were never one for shouting

Till I held you to the flame”