Recall the word you gave: to count your way across the dept… - Joanna Newsom

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Recall the word you gave:
to count your way across the depths of this arid world,
where you would yoke the waves,
and lay a bed of shining pearls! I dream it every night:
the ringing of the pail,
the motes of sand dislodged,
the shucking, quick and bright;
the twinned and cast-off shells reveal a single heart of white.

Joanna Newsom

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Joanna Newsom (born 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. She plays the harp, as well as the piano and the harpischord.

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Birth Name: Joanna Caroline Newsom

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With the loneliness
of you mighty men,
with your mighty kiss
that might never, never end,
while, so far away,
in the seat of the West,
burns the fount
of the heat
of that loneliness.

And all that we built, and all that we breathed
And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably
And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.

And in an infinite regress:
Tell me, why is the pain of birth
lighter borne than the pain of death?

Recall the word you gave: to count your way across the depths of this arid world, where you would yoke the waves, and lay a bed of shining pearls! I … - Joanna Newsom

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