I am leaving when the leaves fall I am returning when the eyes open I am hidden when the eyes close I am between lips and lids My murder shuts quiet His sheets are shadows in the water And the histories are full of blinking And blurs I am hidden when the inken bird covers My youth and my back I was not there for you in the panic I was not there as the kitten died And I take this home with me I swallow your pain and stick blood into me Suck moss and needles, the faces of burrs The methodical false twilight And the gossip poured love like greedy beads Like mirrors I am your face In the toilet in the kittenchen On the glassblue sea the birds see I am your mirror Your echo is me In bells and birds that beauty I saw Etched in clouds trailing Making curtains of waves
The broken face peeps He echoes 'I am echo' I see you monster I see you monster My back and jaw hunch and feel You there You are the cuckoo, the train, the muffled drum You say, 'I am echo I am cleaner of floors Sower of sores' And policeman in brambles and bubbles Call the beauty to rest Say, 'I am echo' And rise with peacocks Feral and horizon The beauty moved over me And the beauty crashed down over my body With wine and dreams creeping down from the bookcases And saying 'I am echo; I am you; speak me; release me; Kill me and leave the cat to G+D and rain and pussy willows' Falling like paws and snowing tears and the voice Shuts silent liar