Jody Blackwell - Thaw

Thaw (c) (p) 2002 Jody Blackwell, Sweet Amnesia Music (ASCAP)

These winter nights
get stuck in my throat
I bite, but I can’t seem to swallow

I dream in vain of
tipping the time
spill out the secrets of tomorrow

This dark draws a crowd
like jugglers in June
the tumbling tricks of my memory

I’ve traveled these rooms
to Asia and back with
no one to say, how they missed me

Slow how they melt, these
invisible dreams
All the things I’d have done
under bolder suns
My joy is a lifeless leaf in the ice
caught by the days,
‘til the thaw reclaims the rivers of my faith

Take from my tongue
this sorrowful soup
the flavor of everything restless
Bring me a cake, carelessly tall
and lace it with long summer kisses