13 july

going against a mind defined by twists the turns earn their golden feet faster than ribbons spin the braids / fading against extremities we stretch and please our muscles with easygo practice a little at a time and our albums will always rhyme / too much to forget but a list that can't get started / departing again we scan the sky for footprints and raise our glasses up / cupping hands to ears and mouth the fears the eyes can't help but show / we row the boat and count the corn and sing our sweethearts home / even as the bough breaks nobody needs to fall nobody stalls out as imagination breaks hesitation and carries us forward / forewarned and forearmed we balance planked and solid / called out and set back the curtains rise and fall / waiting for a playbill to come due / true enough to bluff the scene to raise the cards that fall flat / catalogues and bossycat dogs all waiting the sun to shine / hearing our answers we take all the chances and carry our feet to twine