DEAR WORMWOOD, THE OH HELLOS ( 2015 )
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“ oh, fair and flighty love. ”
“ you’re the only dove I see. ”
“ could you love me more? ”
“ by the sun and moon i swore that I would never flee. ”
“ i still taste you on my lips. ”
“ lovely, bitter water. ”
“ the terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue. ”
“ i know i shouldn’t love you, but i do. ”
“ i feel it in my soul. ”
“ i feel the empty hole, the cup that can’t be filled. ”
“ i feel it in my blood, in the fire and the flood. ”
“ it’s the beast that can’t be killed. ”
“ even now you mark my steps. ”
“ all the days of our delights are poison in my veins. ”
“ i know i shouldn’t love you, i know. ”
“ i am not a fool entire. ”
“ no, i know what is coming. ”
“ you’ll bury me beneath the trees i climbed when i was a child. ”
“ there beneath the willow tree.”
“ i learned a lot about the way of things. ”
“ i learned that everything, the wind, the leaves, has breath inside. ”
“ they were pointing ever east. ”
“ to see the ever-turning aeon cease. ”
“ their wills were ever bent on waiting with all their might. ”
“ there is beauty in the way of things. ”
“ there beyond the palisade. ”
“ i saw the morning lead a cavalcade. ”
“ they made a marvel of a display. ”
“ you were heady as the fog rolling in o'er the hillside. ”
“ you were lovely as the song in the air as the wind blows. ”
“ you were opiate as the cold of the frost on the windows. ”
“ lo, the rose is gone from my eyes, so deceiving. ”
“ so, my little dove, i’m afraid i am leaving. ”
“ now, i am not the fool i was when i was younger. ”
“ crocodile eyes, i have seen how you hunger. ”
“ you’re fluttering your lashes, like ashes and embers. ”
“ you’re warm and bright as fire devouring timber. ”
“ no, i cannot trust what you say when you’re grieving. ”
“ so, my love, i’m sorry, but still i am leaving. ”
“ even when you hunt me with ire, relentless. ”
“ batter down my door when you find me defenseless. ”
“ i will not abide all your raging and reaving. ”
“ i have set my mind and my will, i am leaving. ”
“ hear on the wind how the pendulum swings. ”
“ feel how the winter succumbs to the spring. ”
“ over the palisade morning will break. ”
“ rise up to meet it, oh sleeper, awake. ”
” gather the soldiers, the heir to enfold. ”
“ crown him and give him a scepter to hold. ”
“ sound every horn as the columns extend. ”
“ up to the hill where the king will ascend. ”
“ look to the sky where the sign will be shown. ”
“ heaven and earth and the king on his throne. ”
“ no, i am not afraid to die. ”
“ it’s every breath that comes before. ”
“ heartache, i’ve heard, is part of life. ”
“ i have broken more and more. ”
“ i can hope how this will end. ”
“ oh, that we could learn to love without demand, but unreserved honesty. ”
“ i am not afraid to die. ”
“ you are crouching at my door. ”
“ suffering is all there is to gain in life. ”
“ what is all this waiting for? ”
“ i can see how this will end. ”
“ in all its bitter tragedy. ”
“ i’ll give you all i have to spend. ”
“ you’ll give nothing back to me. ”
“ i will wait for this to end. ”
“ the back and forth, the battery. ”
“ you’ll, at last, comprehend the kind of love of which i speak. ”
“ down they fell like the children of eden. ”
“ down they fell like the tower. ”
“ as the land relinquished her ghost. ”
“ heed the sirens, take shelter, my lover. ”
“ flee the fire that devours. ”
“ the sight held me fixed. ”
“ it was like a bayonet against my throat. ”
“ neither plague or famine tempered my courage, nor did raids make me cower. ”
“ his translucent skin made me shiver deep within my bones. ”
“ it was a pale white horse with a crooked smile. ”
“ i knew it was my time.”
“ it was the raging storm of a foreign war.”
“ it was a face I’d seen before. ”
“ was it you ‘mid the fire and the ember? ”
“ were you there to bedevil and beguile? ”
“ see, your face wasn’t quite as i remember. ”
“ i know that wicked shape to your smile. ”
“ bury me as it pleases you, lover. ”
“ at sea, or deep within the catacomb. ”
“ these bones never rested while living. ”
“ how can they stand to languish in repose? ”
“ he has thrown down the cavalry as gravel sinks. ”
“ as the stone founders underneath the sundered sea of red and reed. ”
“ the shadow of hades is fading. ”
“ he has cast down leviathan, the tyrant, and the horse and rider. ”
“ he will hold with all of his might the armies of night. ”
“ still as boulders laid to the side ‘til we pass by. ”
“ he has hoisted out of the mire every child. ”
“ lift your voice with timbrel and lyre. ”
“ we will abide, we will abide, we will abide. ”
“ there will come a soldier who carries a mighty sword. ”
“ he will tear your city down. ”
“ there will come a poet whose weapon is his word. ”
“ he will slay you with his tongue. ”
“ there will come a ruler whose brow is laid in thorn. ”
“ when i was a child, i didn’t hear a single word you said. ”
“ the things I was afraid of, they were all confined beneath my bed. ”
“ the years have been long, and you have taught me well to hide away. ”
“ the things that i believed in, you’ve taught me to call them all escapes. ”
“ i know who you are now. ”
“ there before the threshold, i saw a brighter world beyond myself. ”
“ in my hour of weakness, you were there to see my courage fail. ”
“ the years have been long, and you have taught me well to sit and wait. ”
“ planning without acting, i’m steadily becoming what i hate. ”
“ i have always known you, you have always been there in my mind. ”
“ now i understand you, and i will not be part of your designs. ”
“ i know who I am now and all that you’ve made of me. ”
“ i know who i want to be. ”
“ i want to be more than this devil inside of me. ”
“ let me die, let me drown, lay my bones in the ground. ”
“ i will still come around when the time for sleep is through. ”
“ over hill, over dale, through the valley and vale. ”
“ do not weep, do not wail. ”
“ i am coming home to you.”
“ every tomb, every sea, spit the bones from your teeth. ”
“ let the ransomed be free as the revel meets the day. ”
“ let the valleys awake, let them rattle and shake. ”
“ in the wind that remakes all that time has worn away. ”
“ to and fro, i will not follow. ”
“ where you go, i will not also. ”
“ i will look for you as the sun rises higher. ”
“ when the dry bones dance with the timbrel and lyre. ”
“ there’s a wind alive in the valley. ”
“ it will fill your lungs, if you’ll have it. ”
“ where i go, will you still follow? ”
“ will you leave your shaded hollow? ”
“ will you greet the daylight looming? ”
“ will you learn to love without consuming? ”
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