ECHO EYES


There’s a skin to your absence, hard as a cactus, keeps me from moving away
Feet sown to the floorboards, tongue in the sock drawer, my words all amorphous like clay
Did you canyon your past, is it echoing back? Does it reverberate, or just excavate?
In the night I can hear the moon singing for lovers dancing alone, Beating hearts, filling eyes with fog to be released from the ghost in your home
Fall into your echo eyes
Did you canyon your past, is it echoing back? In the grave in your eyes, phantoms starting to rise
In the night I can hear the moon singing for lovers dancing alone, Beating hearts, filling eyes with fog to be released from the ghost in your home
Fall into your echo eyes

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