Curtain Calls - Sara K.

In adoration of Susan Jayne Weiss.

They say she jumped but I think she flew

Peace be yours, lovely sister…

Was it a dream, have I been sleeping

On a long, mixed up walk inside my head

Did you knock twice?

We put you in a stream so you’d run

Into the Rio Grande down from this mountain top

But you came here, nice

When you come over it isn’t over

It isn’t over yet

There were two figures in the moonlight

There were some power lines had fallen down

Did you see that?

That kinda bird don’t fly around here

That kinda bird don’t come around here much

There is no trumpet sounding, there is

There are no virgins waiting, there s life

I got the room with the windows in it

I gotta shell, it’s gotta pearl in it

I can close my eyes

Was it a dream, have I been sleeping

On a long, mixed up walk inside my…