Bull Frogs Croon (Suite)
Aoife O'Donovan
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The water is a glass
Like loneliness at ease with itself
I cast and close my eyes for the whirl out across the water
The line striking the surface, sinking
I like waiting
For it to settle on the bottom
Then I jig it up a little
I imagine the lure in utter dark
I play it like when fish rise just shy of the surface
They play their glints off the moon on the water
I see too my own loneliness
It's not too big and it breathes easily
Soon it may pretend it's rain
Soon it may pretend it's rain
Rain blurs the water
There is nothing wrong with rain
I take a deep breath and cast
And cast
Say you're out for a walk
And somewhere through the trees
You walk out of everything in your head
Or off by a window in thought
And what you look out to
A crease of trees perhaps
You don't see at all
What you are thinking there in the trees
As you open like this through a window
And walk and walk into a gazing
Then say, darkness falls
Farther back than the cave you fell into
Farther back than the violence to animals
Darkness, darkness
Farther back than the water you dove into
Hands in front of your face
To feel your way down and know
This darkness did not begin, did not gather
Something backing off, it seems as you come in
Re-enters you and crosses you over
The sleep of the living and the dead
The sleep of the living and the dead
The sleep of the living and the dead
Big frogs croak, baby frogs slither
I'd rather go broke than not be with her
Bullfrogs croon, slugs wiggle wider
I'd live in ruin to lie down beside her
Big frogs croak, baby frogs slither
I'd rather go broke than not be with her
Bullfrogs croon, slugs wiggle wider
I'd live in ruin to lie down beside her
Big frogs croak, baby frogs slither
I'd rather go broke than not be with her
Bullfrogs croon, slugs wiggle wider
I'd live in ruin to lie down beside her