Recall Lyrics

I recall your nipples and gravy

Recall a very wild sky

Recall a man who walked and said nothing

It was all a long goodbye 

I recall your eyelashes and fruitcake

I recall an unhappy dawn

Recall a gate that was often left open 


After the crows were gone 

I recall your sandpaper midnight

Recall your long billowing dream

That you let me stand up and lie down in

That you let me rush between.  

I recall your kneecaps and notebook

Recall the still, dead lake

Recall the long seasons of rhyming time

And the front that was not fake 

I recall a shower in Memphis

Recall a razor in Maine

Recall a stronger woman who sang 


Till tears came down like rain  

Here my tears come haply

Here the light comes through

Here I am lost in my own country 


With never a breath of you 

With never a breath of your reasons

Never a taste of your salt

Turned free from the tyrant hunger 


That finds no food but fault

I am off in the full blue yonder

Out in the prairie so wild

Up where the flowers go crazy with blooming 


And dance in the mind of a child 

I recall your earlobes and triumph

The ceiling and hypnotized cat

I recall great and small and the rise and fall

From longer ago than that