| Forsaking the Land of Oz I will lay down by the ivory-flooded dawn
And flourish in this new-born day
Of flame-still calm
And tender mirages
That melt into crimson and joy
My life has begun now And when the light is low
Only then can sadness
Truly burst into flame and flower
For my might is in my reason
That lips betray in deep blushing nights
Beside the looming luminance of Sicily in my dreams
There is also Notre Dame
A slave to the conquerors
Initiates or laymen
Yet still it floats
Bound for the stars And you my love undress me now
Take no heed of those warnings to release the past
Just die to the land of Oz
For we always did know that it was the caged bird that sings.
Summer Fauve (c) 1996
In the land of pink and grey
Lived an old man of the sea
Ten green eyes
Revolved around his glistening
Seaweed head
He turned to the waves and
Commanded the sea
To still itself for time's sake
For love's sake
For my sake
I watched the dewberries
Melt in his mouth
And peach blossom scattered
The beech leaves surrendering to
The wild west wind
O time that I forgot
O land that time forgot
Bear fruit in the lands of unknowing
And seal this fate with a kiss. Summer Fauve (c) 1998
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