My Sister's Tiny Hands

we came in this world together
 legs wrapped around each other
 my cheek against my sister's
 we were born like tangled vines
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 we lived along the river
 where the black clouds never lingered
 the sunlight spread like honey
 through my sister's tiny hands
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 but while picking sour apples
 in the wild waving grasses
 sister stumbled in the briar
 and was bitten by a snake
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 every creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden fingers
 and as the sun sinks past the waving grass
 some shadows are dragged along
 alone, I took to drinking
 bottles of cheap whiskey
 and staggering through the back woods
 killing snakes with a sharpened stick
 oh, but still I heard her laughing
 in those wild waving grasses
 still her tiny hands went splashing at the river's sparkling shore
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 so I took my rusty gas can
 and an old iron shovel
 and I set the woods to blaze
 and choked the river up with stones
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 every creature casts a shadowunder the sun's golden finger
 but when the sun sinks past the waving grass
 some shadows are dragged along