VI
behind stained windows
dusty in the sun.
thought
takes me swimming
in an ocean.
pages from a book
I meant to read
fragments fall open
like the petals of –
like the feathers of –
like the petals of a seed
a seed.
(chorus)
hourglass city
refuge of thought
and memory
crowds of sand
move in the wind
angles of
steeples on
rooms of sin...
VII
and all these
the citizens
of this myth,
i'm living in
left fingerprints
on my skin and
notches
in the wall,
shadows of
faces Picasso-ed
interrupt the –
spaces
currents
slide –
through the
corset of
sweet infinity.
hourglass city.
(chorus)
hourglass city
refuge of thought
and memory
hourglass city
refuge of thought
and memory
(bridge)
through the sandstone
we arrive
suitors
seducers
time is narrow
let it burn slowly
ashes like moths
caught in a rain
sand sifts into
the shifting sea
obscured by
the rise –
sweet infinity
(chorus)
hourglass city
refuge of thought
and memory
hourglass city
hourglass city