Forget Me Not

In brown clown face, tattered paw, pine scraps
 Fish bones, home phone
 Dial broke, pocket sunk
 In brown paper sack,
 Face, head, eyes black
 Shadow tears, funny ears
 Bird mouth, crumble ash
 In black plastic bag,
 Wounded snakes, slaughtered skunk
 No grey flawless, dead deer
 Shocked eyes
 Open sky, velvet ropes
 VIP heavenward, waywardly staggered drunk
 Wounded stag, limp your way to paradise, limp your way to paradise
 Now I'm wondering if I close my eyes and I fall back in time
 If only I could remember you
 Your name on a tree your blood inside of me
 Your songs all unsung, your thoughts all unspun
 Where would you live, where would you dance
 How would you make love, who would be your dove
 If only I could remember you, if only, if only The fallen mirror bounces back
 Some of moon's gentle laugh
 Sudden echo, soft attack
 Mushrooms glittering on this path
 There's only one way to find out who dared slayed the deer
 Left the eyes for the flies, then retreated into the brown grass
 Bed of pine, needles prickling
 The smallest manger fit for girl kings
 Chicken bones and pervert winks
 Dime bags and plastic rings
 I still remember our first phone number
 They circle me with genders and colors flickering
 Like demons of diamonds of nothing, flickering
 I'm wondering if I'll close my eyes and fall back in time
 Could I remember, could I