clearwater
from the way it's going to be (2003)
Mae Lytle used to live on a farm in
southwestern Ohio. The farm is now at the bottom of a lake. Power lines were
removed but the poles were left in place. If you have children, they swim to land
but you can never leave.
don't talk like no one stood where hard water filled up thin air
don't start with you and clear blue
mark where poles lined the roads you take to sleep
i know what john wayne means when he goes on forgetting
don't let it get all quiet
leave me where trees line it
be still where no one tired fell asleep
i know where steeples float beneath
sleep is filling in where the "i mine me" is thin air
don't talk to me about it
like you were here with hands all rough
seeing clearly, yielding
don't talk to me like no went went honest
when everything came up
i saw green and held you
when this was just a stoplight, fields and cement