Crow Song

I saw the scatterlight streaming

Down thru the century trees

Bloodfern and juniper

Sweeteye and shattercane weeds

I saw the cloud from the cabin

Slate rock and teeming with storm

Carrion bird caught in the hearth

And killed by collision with door

Feathers all over the floor

I’ll be home where I go

I’ll be home wherever I go

I’ll be home where I go someday

Buckshot rang out in the distance

Over and over again

River the Moon shiver

I saw my sister jump in

And I saw my brother in Dallas

Quietly drunk every day

Gentle and kind and lost in his mind

And surprised when his wife went away

And I saw the killers in costume

I saw their satellites burn

I saw them measure their money

In whether they look like the people they hurt

Maybe that’s just who we were

I’ll be home where I go

I’ll be home wherever I go

I’ll be home where I go someday

I wake up staggering lonely

Birdsong and particle air

Her letter in my jacket

I carry myself down the stairs

Lena she treated me easy

She found me wherever I was

Bloodfern and juniper

Sweeteye and shattercane

That never felt like enough

I’ll be home where I go

I’ll be home wherever I go

I’ll be home where I go someday