Fifteen Stars

from Mare's Tails and Mackerel Scales by The Cranberry Isles

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We built a bonfire and sang the sun to sleep that night, it burned, oh, so bright. I'll just wait for fifteen stars to let me know the day is done, that sleep will not come. I'll let the night wear off and sink into a hangover in the back of my car. From the dark the day is born, but what's the use in going home to just be alone? This is a casting off. This is me, giving up. Show me a sign that love won't sail away, well, feet don't fail me now because I died yesterday. The champagne is not as sweet when I tasted it on your lips as you stop me for a kiss. It's nights like this that I can't see because it's dark in the drawer you keep me in. I just wait until you need something. It comes and goes like a flock of birds perched outside on the power lines, daring me with their eyes. But I won't go, not tonight. There's too much left to come undone, I'll just stay up to greet the sun. I am blasting off. This is me, leaving ground. Tell me it's fine, that the reds aren't really grays, that life will finally start and leave behind yesterday.

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from Mare's Tails and Mackerel Scales, released February 1, 2012

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