October Angels

Darker darker
Down
Darker darker
Down
Deepened rhythmic
Pound
Steady thunder
Sound

Dye your spirit ever deeper

With the darker shades of song

Swim beneath the sunlit water

Where the stranger things belong

Fill your soul with life of fire

See the shades uptwisting long

Let your mind bear wilder flowers

Through this night of singing strong

Find the ancient

way of dreaming

Dancing inward

graceful teeming

Feel your sacred soul

becoming

Holy holy holy

drumming

Darker darker
Down
Darker darker
Down
Cringe and creep
Around
Let the song
Astound

Drink in minted drops of water

Rinse your face of every tear

Cleanse your soul of hungry sorrow

Keep your heart by heaven near

Weave in glory with the grim

And mix the beauty with the fear

Find your deepest source of song

And make your soul to heaven dear

Hear the wisping

of October

Angels shifting

solemn, sober

See the deep

endarkened hour

Onward rising

mirthless power

Culminating

fiery master

Of the turning

twisting faster

Mazes laid

about his brain

Confusing and

deluding pain

Go darker darker
Down
Darker darker
Down

[1994]