Neck Of The Moon

She said: Francis, I am

I am dead from now on

But I will live as long as the cloud stays in front of the Moon

And I looked up and saw

Saw the black ship

Like a great wolf after the neck of the Moon

Down inside the woods

Where I saw the light in the country

In the country

Where my dreams are like bark peeled by lightning

Was with her, with the girl

While the wolf had the Moon by the throat

And the whistling swans in their ceremonies

The passing bell nods like a snake charm

And the wolf had the Moon by the throat

She is standing there in the wind

And the cantatas of the moonlight

Well I'm riding the mule

Mule to nowhere then after a while

It's a pony

And then it's a horse

And the wolf had the Moon by the throat

And they suddenly (all the creatures I've heard in the dark all my life)

Were like

Were like rustlings of the devil and they suddenly

Were like

Were like rustlings of the devil