Brooklyn Fawn

There's a fawn with brown eyes

A broken hoof from Brooklyn stars

A summer night

I dreamt I learned how not to speak

Let go of words

Let go of her to let her be

There's a fawn in all my dreams

I guard the sun, I guard the moon

I don't need sleep

With my mouth I shake the leaves

Your eyes get wide, you want to leave

When I write my clumsy heart

Will crack its cage, shoot stars apart

Last night I tore through the cupboards

The medicine already gone

I stumbled past the discovery

Waiting and willing for dawn

I believe I know what's right

What comes into long Brooklyn nights

With belief the moon will rise

Give to the shore then turn the tide

There's a fawn of city trees of sidewalk grass

She won't belong, no, not to me

There's a fawn with brown eyes

A broken hoof from Brooklyn stars

A summer night