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I WAS A VALLEY
05:00
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I was a valley
'cause your water let me grow
now I'm a dry ravine
where before the sea could wind
when you passed through me, honey
you left your salt behind
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2. |
THE FISHING SONG
05:44
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In the woods a friend was fishing
line was quiet, had no bait
question in my mind was rising
when it rose, he answered Wait
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A SOLEMN SOUND
05:43
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A solemn sound within my soul
to feel itself get ripe
and hang all gold while higher up
the maker's ladders stop
And in the orchard far below
you feel your heartbeat drop
Wonderful to feel the day
still reddening the cheek
that you thought was finished, cool of eye
and careful at his work
He shifts the stem a little
to give your core a look
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4. |
THE JOSHUA DANCE
04:14
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Up on the mesa enchanted
high on the breeze and the hootowl's call
moon goes down in the evergreens
riding the hot chaparral
My feet are hurting from so many stars
and the coyote warbles again
somewhere, anywhere, nowhere:
where else would the Joshua dance?
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5. |
THE SMILE IN THE STONE
05:05
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Beginning you woke in a stone-carved house
you went on a stone-cold floor
you warmed yourself by the stone fireplace
and big stones held up the door
in the window the sky passed between stones
and your feet followed stones out the door
in the light the field turned over was stones
and from under the stone water poured
Within the stone there was a face
but darkness put her down
still when you worked you knew
there was one more face to be found
Some of the stones had fish inside them
some of the fish had fish inside
some of the stones had words inside them
and some were just stones
When finished, you'd carved a house of stone
all stone the hand and the sun
all stone the past and the time to come
and stone the face in the moon
you showed the stone limbs of youth and age
the stone walls of heaven and hell
you showed the stone-naked mother of all
but forgot what she knew in her smile
Within the stone there was a smile
but darkness put her down
still when you worked you knew
there was one more smile to be found
Some of the stones had words inside them
some of the words had words inside
some of the stones had deer inside them
and some were just stones
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6. |
THE GOOD BREAD
04:56
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Some got the time
some got the heat
some the oven
but they still won't eat
Some got the flour
some got the salt, baby
some the water
but it's not their fault
Some talk of love
so big for all their life
but we've got its good bread
and we got the knife . . .
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7. |
WHO MY SOUL LOVES
04:47
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My head is wet with dew
the dew of early day
heart is crying through
the drops of the night
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When the rain takes off her clothes
I wake up wet to my feet
when the rain loses it so sweet
I wake up down in the mouth
when the rain pulls me way down south
I wake up wet to my fruit
when the rain puts on her birthday suit
I wake up wet to my eyes
when the rain puts on the sky
I wake up wet to my nose
when the rain takes off her clothes
i wake up wet to my feet
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9. |
IN THE FOX'S BODY
04:35
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Five hundred winters as a fox
I've been yearning to be free
of consequence's chain
What's the answer? Please tell me!
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Tom Ross Colorado Springs, Colorado
Music, art, poetry spoken here!
As E Dickinson says:
Nature is what we know
but have no art to say
so impotent our wisdom is
to her simplicity
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