Shadows

Flannel, flushed, between red oak stacks
 Thicket's full of fawn and clover traps
 Cornmeal rising high in cast iron pans
 Cattails catching all the copperheads
 Walk your way into the river
 Is it fever or surrender?
 Like a quilt handing out patterns
 Like shadows to measure
 Ripping pages from the book of Psalms
 Kettle's calling out a ransom song
 I shave your legs 'til the daylight's gone
 Slowly reaching for a little more
 Walk your way into the river
 Is it fever or surrender?
 Like a quilt handing out patterns
 Like shadows in attics
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 What elsе do (What else do)
 I need to move (I need to movе)
 To make room?
 What else do (What else do)
 I need to lose (I need to lose)
 To make room?
 What else new (What else new)
 Could I choose (Could I choose)
 To make room?
 How else do (How else do)
 I use this broom (I use this broom)
 To make room?
 Leave this place just like you found it
 Posts of cedar, coils of wire
 Tangled up inside the briar
 Like shadows on fire