Mount Eerie Pt. 6

Waking up in the known world

There's something that's left over

I rub my eyes into the known world

The house is dark all day

My eyes are half-open

And the light that does get in is unconvincing

Half sleeping through the day in the middle of winter

Did I dream this in the dusk or am I alive,

Right now in the known world?

Seeing the known world in a cloud

Known world in twilight

Known world as aroma

Known world as an old love

And then spring comes in the cold bucket of water

And the light that floods in unrelenting

Doors and windows blow apart

The blankets blow off of the bed

Making coffee in the dissipating fog

Now I think I'm the only one awake

All these human bodies sleeping while driving

And I can just barely keep myself up,

this comfortable life now rests

Easing into the bed there is warm water rising

All day long and into the night being lulled

Accumulating dust

Our house lights up the whole neighborhood,

we have the lights on working

All day long and into the night not knowing it's raining

But just before going to bed I'm called out the back door

There is an owl, the grass is wet, what's that other sound?

Here in the brances…