Completely
Joan Shelley
3:44In the amber-lit morning The sweet smell of clover Coming in through the window As spring starts to show Antigone retreating in the snow Oh, the soil dreams of fruit And a boy with an axe across the brook The gardener greets the youth And sows a tear, saying, "Don't you cry Don't you cry, these headless geese can fly." When having's done, death hangs it too The quickening stalk, the verdant shoot The outgrown shoot Every child sees it Every child knows As a child I saw it all And the dance here between us In the crook of your arm Unafraid if for just once We've a place to stand on I felt a tremor in the mountain No place for us to cling to Save each other Here come the cows Vanity and pride I drank their milk And wore their hide Though it takes so much to be human And watch the bull die I am sorry, and I thank you Every child sees it Every child knows As a child I saw it all Even I see it Even I know Even I see it all No, no, no