song title / lyrics

subsoil karren

explore subsoil karren,
her grooves formed underground,
and the corrosion her conscience
when no one is around

her eccentricity's ascribed to sleep-
less nights in her thin bed,
the light shines in a keyhole
dipping seaward, to her beach head

explore subsoil karren
as she bathes in hated springs,
with her flutes still calling softly,
when the daylight blowhole sings

cave blisters seek rock shelter
from such aggressive waters
only blades in blind valleys
greet our marble daughter

explore subsoil karren
and stare at scaling plates,
in the subsequent erosion
of her once vast estates

flowing aprons covering
her sloping stone projections;
she pitts with wind and sand,
those undeveloped sections.

explore subsoil karren,
on hemispheric hills
shaking in her shawl,
and choking on clay fill.

crawling to the crystal pool
with dog-tooth decorations,
collapsing in the sink,
of her calcifications

explore subsoil karren
and the canyons in her mind
current markings, at the threshold-
traces so sublime

and chance, translucent curtains
that drift up to the avens
bare naked on the balconies
of sophisticated ravens

she wastes away on saw-topped ridges
collared but transcendent-
the harness falls, but what remains?
a pillar or a pendant?

she wastes away on saw-topped ridges
collared but transcendent-
the harness falls, but what remains?
a pillar or a pendant?
(repeat...)