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Beryl and Jasper

from Catch and Blur by Midsummer

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lyrics

across the back of Leviathan
heavens roll away
this white stone once embedded
so it's letters formed your name
decrescent aurora garlands
once bestrewn with boughs of licorice dawn
now pallid as the cloud of ash over Pompeii

clothed in suns
ten goats hanging frame a midland palette
where penstrokes cry for friends who've died
from their gaping throats I hear a lion roaring
but when I turn I see a lamb

(whispers drip
the author's tongue
martyred eyes
behold the sun
peals of spring
our father's cry
mosaic dreams
branches crystalline)

upon my door
your knocking falls in torrents
like the empathy that wets my cheeks
from eyes which claim to see
"Come in," I say
its warm here
still I know this door has only one handle
but its on my side

some say Nero's gone
some say that he'll come back
we'll find Rome dipped bridle deep in blood
and stirred in sulfur
soon this all will melt away
in beryl and jasper
but inside there's a river

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from Catch and Blur, released June 1, 1999

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