Lyrics

Noisy wide-eyed kids Raced around a christmas tree And skiis packed On a roof of cars Over impatient drivers Repetition prolongs the strength of allusion And arched pro forms Diminish Becoming frail and silent And to the appearance Of a lone ocean bird Skimming over the choppy waters Earily eyeing after anchovies And occasionally glancing At the people who had come to me at the beach On a winter's solstace I watch this bird in flight Using the wind Against the wind The bird hovered motionlessly And admittedly adjusting Both his body and wings Self possessed Caught the current of a strong wind Herding in a long half-circle Slowly at first And then picking up speed As a straightened upon The invisible coarse The solitary bird flew Far from my sight Yet within an image Had reshaped into an Empowered vision Disturbing event surroundings Resembling great Aloneness Between two rocks I picked up an empty shell Of a brown and cree cory That had probably been washed ashore From some earlier storm I listen to the not-so-far memories of you Through the shell and also tasted Semi-sweet berries Remembered from childhood