The knockdown man
The berry blonde
Clutch at each other
Grow terribly fond
This house of bales
The strike of this match
Each throat claiming
The other’s the catch
Her knotty future
His splintered past
Running against the grain
They’ll never last
Indecision tree
Rip and cut cross flight
Wood thy maid
Wood thy wight
Wolf at the window
Wind at our walls
We brace ourselves
For the coming fall
The tunneling winter
The springing squall
It’s straw, sticks and bricks
And then sweet nothing at all
Sweet nothing—
He’s lining the oven
She’s pulling up stakes
Still built like
The proverbial jakes
The storybook soldier
The storybook doll
Between them they’re building
A fairytale wall
credits
from Croons & Tunes,
released January 10, 2016
written February 2010