Rexroth's Daughter

Coldest night of the winter Working up my farewell In the middle of everything Under no particular spell Dreaming of the mountains Where the children learn the stars Clouds roll in from Nebraska Dark chords on a big guitar My restlessness is long gone Standing like an old jack pine I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter She's a friend of a friend of mine Can't believe your hands and mouth Did all that to me And they are so daily naked For all the world to see That thunderstorm in Michigan I never will forget We shook right with the thunder And with the pounding rain got wet Where did you turn when you turned from me With your arms across your chest Ya,I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter Saw her in the great northwest Would she have said it was the wrong time If I had found her then I don't ask very much A field across the road and a few good friends She used to come & see me She was always there & gone Even the very longest love Do'nt last very long She'd stood there in my doorway Smoothing out her dress Saying 'life is a thump-ripe melon- -so sweet and such a mess' (I wanted to get to know you But you said you were shy I would have followed you anywhere But hello rolled into goodbye I just stood there watching As you walked along the fence Beware of them that look at you As an experience You're back out on the highway With your poems of city heat I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter Here on my own side street) Well,The murderer who lived next door Seemed such a normal guy-- You try to swallow what they shove at us You run out of tears to cry I heard a man speak quietly I listened for a while He spoke from his heart to my woe And then he bowed & smiled What is real but compassion As we move from birth to death Ya, I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter And I'm running out of breath Spring will come back I know it will And it'll do its best So useful, so endangered Like a lion or a breast I think about my children When I look at any child's face Pray that we will find a way To get with all this amazing grace It's so cold out there tonight Stormy I can hardly see I'm looking for Rexroth's daughter And I guess I always will be