God is love and love is real,
but the dead are dancing with the dead,
and whatever’s charming disappears,
while all things lovely only hurt my head.
As I gather stones from fields
like pearls of water on my fingers’ ends and wrap them in boxes.
Save from windows, from things that break,
as the night-time shined like day it saw my sorry face.
Hair a mess but it liked my best that way
(besides how else could I confess?
When I looked down like if to pray,
well I was looking down her dress…)
Good God, please!
Catch for us the foxes in the vineyard - the little foxes.

Turn your ear, musician.
To silence because they only come out when it’s quiet,
their tails brushing over your eyelids.
Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead!
Or the fur that they shed will cover your bed in a delicate orange-ish cinnamon red.
Ah, I don’t need this!
I have my loves, I have my doubts.
I don’t need this.