Bare Bone

by Holly Anton

Holly Anton – “Bare Bone”

 

till the crows call me home I hang between earth and sky

I swing from a single thread, one breath wide

till the crows call me home

I'm asleep in the eye of the storm

 

I'm a bare bone

I'm a bare bone

 

calling out the names of the dead to a silent sky

throwing dust to the wind looking for a sign

till the crows call me home

I’m just a thrown stone

 

I'm a bare bone

I'm a bare bone

 

when peace fills the sky, my breath falls like rain

the simple truth of you and I wraps around my shoulders

and though I try, I never

remember for long

 

I'm a bare bone

 

until the crows call to me

the silver cord that makes your pain mine

flows like an hidden river

through my sleeping mind

 

the crows they laugh at me, caught inside my head

see me talking to myself, tangled in my own skin

from high in the pines , they cackle like crones

sleepy child you’re tired & cold

 

won’t you come home?

 

under a canopy of wings and sky, nothing’s born and never dies

we’re a swinging door, our breath nests like sea and shore

till the crows call me home

I’m driftwood in sea foam

 

I’m a bare bone

I’m a bare bone