Saltbreakers - Laura Veirs

Serpent tails and flying fish

Sup up all the wishes

That you sent to the stars

Chinese dragons incandescent

Mirrors in the waves

I want to put them in jars

With my-y-y saltbreakers

(ringing all the underwater, underwater, underwater bells)

Saltbreakers

(look inside a space, look inside a space and you can tell)

Saltbreakers

(what you need to sow, what you need to know by any means)

You will not burn me up

Though I’ve dreamed nightly of your face

And walked the streets of my life

With your singing in my silent brain

You cannot burn me up

I’m a fallen leaf who keeps her green

And don’t forget I’ve got my

Trusty bag of oh-oh-oh

Saltbreakers

(flashing in the night, crashing all around my eyes)

Saltbreakers

(throwing me down turning on the fire flies)

Saltbreakers

(the ebb and the flood, clearing all the channels of your heart)

Bleached by the dark

Oceans of clouds

Rainstorms of ash

Stars on the ground

All around my-y saltbreakers

(floating like a butterfly singing like a bumblebee)

Saltbreakers

(dashing alright, splashing and slumbering)

Saltbreakers

(mirror to the serpentine stars)