MOVING MOUNTAINS

Hand me the crowbar.
Roll up your sleeves.
We've got a mountain to move.

Sun in the background.
Beats on your head.
I can see pearls of...

Sometimes the big things
get in the way
but they don't stop me
I know where I'm going.

 

SPACEBAR

Ah-Ha. Uh-huh.
Ah-Ha. Uh-huh.

Meet me at the Spacebar.
Pour me a drink of you.

Say something…
…Be quiet.
Meet me at the Spacebar.
(Ah-Ha. Uh-huh.)
Look me in the eye.
(Ah-Ha. Uh-huh.)
Meet me at the Spacebar.
Buy me a drink of you.
(Manifest your dreams.
Trade cold in for warm.)

I was in love with you
(Ah-Ha. Uh-huh.)
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Before I knew.
Ah-Ha. Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

I'm intoxicated with you
(write a letter-put it in the drawer when no one else is looking)
Meet me at the Spacebar.
I'm intoxicated with you
(Aspire higher than you expect to
Climb.)

Ah-Ha
Meet me at the Spacebar.
Look me in the eye. (Ah-Ha Uh-huh. Uh-huh huh.)

I will dream our destiny. (Ah-Ha Uh-huh. Uh-huh huh.)

You will comply.

DESERT PICNIC

Going to the Desert
Where the nights are cold
And the days are infernal.
Going by myself (well, not really)
Going with you
But we are going there to be alone together
to the desert
to be alone together.

When you walk, I can't hear you.
We go in different directions,
But you can see me and I can see you,
And we can see our picnic basket
And telephone wires.
You find some marble
In the desert
You find a headstone,
Broken….

Tiny, little flowers blooming out of the cracks in the desert.
They look like miniature bigger flowers, Like princess daffodils.

 

CANADIAN SPIES

There is a man who lives a life of danger.
Secret Agent Man.
I really can't tell you the truth because I don't know the truth.
I swallowed the truth
before you trapped me here in the corner.
(There is a man who lives a life of danger.
There is a man who lives a life of danger.)
It was on a piece of paper. I wrapped it into a little
square.
Secret Agent Man.
I can't tell you the truth.
You will have to kill me.

So, you wanna know the secret.
Well, I'm not telling. Nuh uh.
I get paid for this. Y

ou're gonna have to kill me
If you want the answer.
You can't know my secrets
If you kill me.

I passed top-secret clearance.
I get paid for this.
Mr. SecretAgentMan don't make me tell you what you don't want to know.
I put your number on a piece of paper.
You can't get it from me.
I swallowed it.

I get paid for this.

I can't tell you.
I can't tell you.
You're gonna have to kill me.
I've got clearance.
I know people in high places. Uh-huh.
I get paid for this.
I get paid for this.
Nobody must know.
You're my secret….

MOOD ANTHOLOGY

C-squared urchin
Anemone
Jellyfish
Sea urchin
Octopus and squid
Amoeba
Jellyfish

He has not met my goldfish
And yet when he opens his hands
Rainbows spill into the pond.
Things crawling and you can't even see them.
Dolphin
Tidepools
This is my mood anthology.
This is my mood anthology.

This is my mood anthology.

SHADOW TATTOO

The light through the trees
The light through the leaves
I focus my camera into the sun.
They tell me not to do this.

Shadows are the inevitable part of light
Or are they the absence of light
Or is light the absence of shadow
And shadow
the negative space of light
And shadow the negative space of light?

I wear a shadow tattoo on my ankle.
It moves when I dance around.
It leaves the party when I leave the party
And so does the light
And so does the shadow.

He was inclined to see the molecular structure of things
In an innovative way. Two atoms of oxygen
Wrapped around my perspective.
My perspective
disguises itself as
Shadow
(Shadow Shadow…)

 

ONCE UPON A TIME

Once upon a time (Lay your head down)
There was …
Once upon a time there was a valley of lilies.
I muddied my feet harvesting them.

Once upon a time
(And breathe so your heartbeat slows down.
I'll sing you to sleep.)
I became someone you couldn't recognize on glossy paper.
(I'll mess with your dreams.)

Once upon a time
You put me in a frame.
(I'll touch your head while I sing you to sleep.)

Once upon a time,
Three times you said my name:
Catherine
Catherine
Catherine

Once upon a time
The story begins
Just as I feel you
Going there.

Good night.

 

LATE AFTERNOON

You light the candle
In the uncertainty of the late afternoon.

This particular light
Reminds you
(indecipherable language)
The earth sleeps
in the winter.
(indecipherable language)
The earth sleeps
in the winter.

WHERE DO YOU STOP

Where do you start stop
Start stop
And I begin?

Where do you start
Stop
Start
And I begin?

These lines are blurred
Beyond recognition.

Rid self of the self.
Get out of your own way.

Where do you start
Stop
And I begin. In the beginning.
(You see it's all clear…in the beginning…From the beginning)

Where do you start stop
And I begin.
The lines are blurred
on recognition.

Cross the street
I am here.
Where
Where
Where
Have you been?

Where
Where
Where
Have you been?

Where do you start
Stop
And I begin.

I can hear your heart beat
In the microphone.
That's how I know….

Where do you start
Stop, go
And I begin?

The orbit of thought
Oblong
Around again.
Oblong
Oblongong.

Where do you start
Stop
Go
And I begin?

Your fingerprint
Melts on my skin.

Wake in the morning,
Call my name, Catherine
And I know

Where you start
Where you begin.

Inside of me.
Inside
Where you start
Stop
Go go
And I begin
Gin
Gin
Gin
Gin.

Language becomes dissonant
Interferes with sight.

I don't know how to say it.
I don't know how to say it.

As where, where do???

FALLING STAR

The star
Falls from the sky

Leaves a trail on my mind.

The star
On the ground
Lies broken
And waiting for rescue.

I pick it up
In my napkin
And I
Bring it home to you.

You place it in a jar
On the shelf
Near the fireplace
Near the fireplace.

The star sleeps in the jar.
I sleep in your arms.
The star
Opens an eye.

I hear butterflies.
I hear butterflies.
I hear butterflies…
And sunshine.

 

THE WEEDS

I used to fly
Now I am stone
And my garden is overgrown.

Garden is overgrown
The weeds.
The weeds.

The garden is overgrown
The seeds.

I don't dream anymore
I used to fly.
I don't dream anymore
I used to fly.

The church is boarded up.
The yard.
Chain link fence.
Scissor wire
Scissor wire
Scissor wire.

Where are the people?
Where are the people at this hour?

He says it's so uncertain,
So much uncertainty.
This light reminds him of Paris.

The garden is overgrown
The weeds.
(indecipherable language)
The weeds…
…their seeds blowing everywhere.

The weeds….
…their seeds blowing everywhere.