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The black figure of my body above your window as you’re dreaming

I came to wake you and take you up north

The yard was wet, the heavens forget the way things are seeming

For us who must stumble in yards dark as horses



Your dream went like this, John the Baptist came back vapor-veiled

With grand expectations for what he had started

And you couldn’t resist, you gave him the gist about how things failed

And how all but one fire-heart had departed



And that you were her, and you were sure

That you had the Blood, that you had the Blood

That all is made of

And that is alright, that is alright

I can’t think of a better dove

To carry the Blood



The canal was bright, its innards ignite when moon stretches tight

To show the cargo the floating is gliding

The edges are dark, it’s channeled by bark, it carries the mark

Of every speckle of guilt I was hiding



The bathroom does taste of menstruation chasing night-musk through window screen

Like wounded doves all pretty things bleed

Like my highway dream, Judas redeemed for the one kiss he rode on

Our spirits ride canals and never in deeds



Deeds do go, and deeds do not

Carry the Blood, carry the Blood

That all is made of

Carry it right, all through the night

Till you see what we are of

A dove that carries the Blood

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from The Orion Songbook , released November 6, 2008

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