Girlyman Reva Thereafter
You were the mother who said to her child, "You bring
it up slowly"
All of these buoys, they mark the traps, and you were
the only
Woman for fifty miles who could lift something like
that
You'd cook them up in seawater soon as you got back
Reva, thereafter
Up to the rafters
Up through the plaster
Up through the highest beams, I will
Sing of your wonder
In a voice like thunder
Sometimes your heart bursts at its seams
The sound of a nighttime passing train wakes me from a
slumber
The creeping of time keeps me awake, won't let me go
under
But sometimes forgetting is all you need to get some
sleep
Why have you left here, and what does it mean for me?
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You wrote the letters one by one into the setting of
the sun
Tell me, what was it like to send yourself into the
light that night?
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