A transparent moon stares

A transparent moon stares

The stars too shy to shine

In the quiet of light

Spring flowers and a pine

A small plane mows the sky

While a crow flying low

Casts shadows like blowing

Newspapers from ago

No new beginnings here

No new beginnings here

Holding to fifty years

Of fight and hard progress

Gone! As fascism nears

And red breasted robins 

And magnolia trees

Are oblivious of

Truths falling to their knees 

Push back the soil so that

Push back the soil so that

A fossil cannot form

Keep back the wind and rain

Or any passing storm

Even in my lifetime

Echoes are growing faint

Beauty succumbing to

Sediment and not saint

Nein, nein, nyet, nyet

Nein, nein, nyet, nyet

We are in strong cahoot

The axis of evil

And the Nazi salute

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid 

As long as it tastes good

Fuck around and find out

And shoulda, woulda, could

The button vacancy

The button vacancy

Long ago Christmas tree

The childhood souvenir 

That holds the love of we

Ships lost in sandy sleep

Like youth we can’t recoup 

Trapped in picture frames while

A thousand goodbyes loop

Offering my lowlands

Offering my lowlands

Let your overflow flow

Banking the rainfall or

The melting winter snow

Or call out from the top

When ascension is reached

Or be on the lookout

Of bottled message beached

The stars are falling and

The stars are falling and

Red bleeding into white

Truth wilting under lies

Lost sense of wrong or right

The mother of freedom

Wailing as she watches

Her printed name on clothes

As the meaning botches