I Could Not Shift the Shadow

I could not shift the shadow Or form sugar for your halos Channelled table-taps from ghost gods Prowled and slept in steep ships Mixed mythology with pathology Tossed a coin and hymned the groves Then did you scent the wind drop And count the codes of seeds? And did you call the night "bright" And drink the sex of stars? Or might you cartoon 'Ιοδας Judas And cast in flower rooms? Your breath flickered next to my breath Humming noise and rhyming sweet songs That your mouth had heaped up like rivers And buried deeper in your hearts Unzipped Æeons and cradled antlers Opened your face and gave your grave Opened True Moon opened thousand Nights and paths under mountain flames Spelled the gardens as the cock crowed And spoke slowly as the laughter rose In dragonflies and PussyWillows Dreamt your lips like Kings and Queens So open up your mouth And in your invisible church Under sun whilst cats purr Gorgeous dreams under dark nights And tender rhymes under SwallowFlight And lovely BirdSong sings What is the cost of sand in Anarch? What is the cost of blood as mist? What is the cost of the child in your heart With his castleface? Who is the coat Teller wore? And Tell me your great Name In torrents of birds Kiss me your real Name And wait for the sun to bring you open And bare your naked church Into my mouth And bare your naked church Into my mouth And bare your naked church Into my mouth And bare your naked church Into my mouth And bare your naked church Into my mouth And bare your naked church Into my mouth And bare your naked church Into my mouth