Mermen of the Lea - And Also the Trees

An owl hoots.

The moon

Searches from the sky

Pierced with its sister stars

And the mermen of the lea

Sing their silken song to me

Curling down the dark wind

In green lane

Calling me back

To the blissed black lonely field seas…

Oh let me swim with you this night alone

The mermen of the lea

Oh sing your silken song to me

Far from the lantern swaying

Summer dusk, your seaweed breath

Screams brine out of the bay

Your reaching arms and eyes

Caress and leave the sleeping

Like horses leap the narrow thistled fields

Oh mermen of the lea

Sing your silken song to me…

As your far off seas careen the ships

Oh mermen of the lea

Curling the black winds through the trees