Where Once I Built the Wings

from Good Spirits by Street Nymphs

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I am blanketed in feathers now.
You have flown into the mist.
And I am listening for anything
That might convey just where that is, or how to get there.

I hope this morning comes in with a song,
A rhythm born within the ruins.
And won’t the stones please set it in my chest?
And maybe make my heart to move for a little while.

Or else I’ll lie here just like a sparrow,
Flat on its back along the road.
The sky and trees are hanging over me,
And if I could only fly I’d go—
Oh, oh.
*
It takes me ages just to settle down,
And then you stir me up again.
But I’ve got fractures to concern about
Before I try and taste the wind again, again.

The Moon illuminates my feathers;
They float like ghosts upon the air,
Somewhere my frame has formed a crater—oh!
I’m sure it’s busted beyond repair.

But I’ve been thinking it’s too easy
To end up stuck beneath the ground;
Oh, will it be so hard to stay aloft
Without my corpse holding me down?
On down, on down.
*
So darling, I’ll become a feather,
And ride the zephyr up to you.
And I’ll descend one quiet midnight,
Another ghost upon the Moon,
On the Moon.

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from Good Spirits, released October 26, 2013

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