When Seamus Went Digging (The Beloved, Side B)
Deborah Stokol
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When Seamus went "Digging" And the blind man went looking for you As you hid in the labyrinth And he called you "Beloved" While whispering your name in the halls of Tabriz Your face was in friezes Above columns you held up for me And a lantern I lifted as I walked The stairs where you kept your promise That you you made to me And I sailed through the ocean And I whirled on the eddies And I danced on the streams To the ports where I bargained for opals And all the black teas that I drank to believe But you weren't there And I sought you in novels But you burrowed in my drawers And you knit yourself in all my clothes In the pockets like moths in my cable knit Warm sweater sleeves But like thieves, they stole you from me And I wished as I wore it The carnelian carved ring That I used to seal letters I wrote you And stuffed in green bottles I launched to the wind For one thousand years But they blew them to smithereens And you waited in caverns that did hang with flowers The glass of the hours Held sand from the shells to my ears Where you sang the verses that lifted the curses They had placed on me The lady with braids Who did you keep you enthralled In her captivity And you didn't leave. No, you didn't leave. Didn't you know it was Time to go? I studied the pages I visited sages I added the numbers and wondered at patterns Was it all our fault? Or was it "the fault in our stars"? So I became the Priestess from the cards The Empress, the Teacher, The Seer The Tearer, The Mother, the Bearer The Sepher, the Cipher, deep hoarded and true Who stared down at you, from lead-paned windows And it pained me to see the conclusions they drew The white h(e)art, they hunted, that broke me so briefly The telescope, the microscope, the gyroscope, kaleidoscope And I saw you as the twinkle in the eye Of the Cosmos Not a hall of mirrors but a hall of walls with doors That opened to you And you ride your mount to me I was the Quest, the Grail you searched And I saw you standing there In front of me And you had come Home
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