Better Angels - Califone

William hovers bear trap teeth

Tender necks on tender knives

Cindy prone hung by heat

Soaks her dress in a long convulsion

Unremembering, nest on winter bears, on broken trees that we can last (eat each

other)

Orbits crack spring comes late william sheds another wife

Wrists for pulses seed the clouds quiet as the first snow

Cold logic now, her hot tears make me erect, the shred of hope that we could

last

Vexations gathering to re-assemble our impasse

Better angels drunk and slow sung to sleep in kitchen Spanish

Unremembering, nest on winter bears, on broken trees that we can last (eat each

other)

Better angels of our nature

Mercy mercy let this change take

Winter bears dream kitchen Spanish

Mercy mercy let this healing take