Killer from the Mountain

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Killer from the Mountain

When you returned
we lay together
in the wood along
the river path.

The rain stopped
and the sky was clearing
the river frothed
and tumbled past.

I’d been alone
a long time by then
but with my palm
against your breast
and with your kisses
on my eyelids
and in the perfume
of your breath
and at the moment
The dam broke loose
when birds in chorus
sang your name
you took me in
with your gray eyes
and swore
you’d never
leave again.

Then you bit my lip
and the blood flowed freely
and where it spilled
pink orchids grew.
You picked them all
and you ate their petals
and in your moment
of returning
their beauty was
was returned to you.

The river came
down from the mountain.
The river came
Like Killer from the mountain.

The river came
like Killer from the mountain
whose awful face blocked out the moon
He snapped the wood like
old dry tinder.
Then he separated
me from you.

Killer dragged you
off into the ocean
You drew a breath and
the sea filled your lungs.

You became the ocean.
You became a rain cloud.

Steady winds
carried the rain cloud
across the sea
and back over
the land.

A storm gathered
and the sky poured itself out
over the wood along
the river path.

The rain cloud
came from the ocean.
The rain cloud
came from the ocean.
The rain cloud
came from the ocean.
The rain cloud came like
Venus from the ocean.

When you returned
we lay together
in the wood along
the river path.
The rain stopped
and the sky was clearing
The river frothed
And tumbled past.

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from Timothy Bailey & the Humans, released September 30, 2022

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