South Col/The Snow Leopard (Recorded Live at Florence Gould Hall, NYC)

the way is to climb

the way is to lie still

and let the moon do its work on your body

and then to rise

through forests and oceans of lives

and through the way of the black rocks, splitting, wide,

and flow

ten thousand miles

well, i've had enough

wasting my body, my life

i'll come away, come away from the shallows

but can this sullen child,

as bound as the ox that i ride,

climb to the heart of the white wind, singing, high,

and blow

through my frozen eyes?