Adrienne Rich - August lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - August lyrics]
Two horses stand in a yellow light
Eating windfall apples under a tree
As summer tears apart and
The milkweeds stagger
And grasses grow more ragged
They say there are ions in the sun
Neutralizing magnetic fields on earth
Some way to explain what this week has been
And the one before it!
If I am flesh sunning on rock
If I am brain burning in fluorescent light
If I am dream like a wire with fire
Throbbing along it
If I am death to man i have to know it
His mind is too simple, I cannot go on
Sharing his nightmares
My own are becoming clearer, they open
Into prehistory
Which looks like a village lit with blood
where all the fathers are crying:
My son is mine!
Eating windfall apples under a tree
As summer tears apart and
The milkweeds stagger
And grasses grow more ragged
They say there are ions in the sun
Neutralizing magnetic fields on earth
Some way to explain what this week has been
And the one before it!
If I am flesh sunning on rock
If I am brain burning in fluorescent light
If I am dream like a wire with fire
Throbbing along it
If I am death to man i have to know it
His mind is too simple, I cannot go on
Sharing his nightmares
My own are becoming clearer, they open
Into prehistory
Which looks like a village lit with blood
where all the fathers are crying:
My son is mine!
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