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She Stayed As Steam

from She Stayed As Steam by Kevin Devine

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All that music in your mouth
Rivers rushing to your teeth
Cresting waves through waiting valleys
Flooded language tributaries
Connect and cover over me
Tensing jaw and corkscrew eyelids
As if you couldn’t bear to see
All that water roaring from you
Collect in clouds inside the ballroom
Over people who don’t know you
But darling, I do

Trance yourself back from the city
Blood not moving to my feet
Your footfalls tentative and muffled
Automatic listless shuffle
You sidewalk scatterbrained, cry uncle
Paint yourself back in your corner
Look for her on your tv
It’s Friday night and I am hungry
For a hand a mouth a body
A love I wouldn’t have to carry

A stitch in my mouth
I’m untying now
A concrete canal
In a bombed border town
An echo in the rafters
Reminding you there was a sound
You killed her in waves
So she stayed as steam
To hiss at you now

Yes, you killed her in waves
But no, that’s not today
So you breathe through your mouth
You calm yourself down
And keep what you found
And shouted out loud:
She can hover in hurt
Or dissolve to dirt
Some prayer in your mouth
Or she might stay as steam
Soak into the beams
Let you figure her out

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from She Stayed As Steam, released June 29, 2010

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