One, two, three
Florida
Shook my skin
Find seams and let infinity in
Some of my friends rent huge ruined houses
Where many cruel and desperate things have happened
My neighbour Cliff was unforgiven
He's a cypress split by excess lightning
In the radiant now
Through the twisting trees
Unavoidable arrows of the enemy
Bring my Glass Princess
Out to bleaching reefs
And wrecks smooth from
The pressure of centuries
Got a grey-eyed boy
Serving overseas
In my head his slow smile is spreading
I was just three years old
August '92
Our whole town got wiped out by Andrew
The same age, my nan
Saw wild horses fly
In the great nameless hurricane of '35
I lay awake
Renaming stars
The sound flat and black as a boulevard
Matthew for my dad
Hollowed out by hate
Hell is the truth seen, too, too late
