28 March 2011

April -PJ Harvey

April,
how could
I not have
seen

April,
you
come-
ing

April,
how could
I have worn
in-appropriate
clothing?

April,
all that
careful
stepping,

rounding
of my soul,
and now
your rain.

April, I felt you leaving.

I don't know what silence means.
It could mean anything.

April,
won't you
answer
me?

These days
just seem
to crush
me.

Hatching,
collapsing,
tumbling
down.

April!
What if
I drown!

I don't know what silence means.
It could mean anything.
Won't you answer me?

I dreamed,
April,
that I'm walking,
that I'm watching
your rain.
It overcomes me.

2 comments:

  1. When I re-read the lyrics chapter of your "Poetry for the Confused," I started scouring liner notes. I found this in A Woman A Man Walked By.

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