Bird House

Lady made no mention Barefoot down the hallway Turning on the lights in the empty rooms In the largest of houses With the darkest of windows Morning bells of birds in the woods abound Lady made no mention That her stomach, it had left her Feet, they made no sound here anymore What to tell when there's no one left to listen? What to say when there's no one left around? Lady took the silence to mean nobody loved her The light missed all the windows There could be no sun And since they all had left her For school and sports and parties Politics and quivers in the night She began to speak her longings to the rope Began to speak her longings to the rope She said this land he loves my reclamation He'll pay this date out for the crime And I give my breath out to beloved birds and This will be the last time he walks away without me So she chose the pathway Sloping to the forest The judgment of the feathers Wrestled in the leaves So she climbed the cages To the cooing in the rafters Unfurled tomorrow's morning with the slipping left to brave From there, it went so easy So swift it came undone As the catch, it slips and the rope pulls taut It all came together with a knot It all fell together with a knot She saved the morning light for her widower-maker She swept the afternoon with stories in the papers She made the night long for the newly motherless child Tomorrow's motherless child