Grey & Green

Land in my mind
Crawling through the sound
I found it
Now I recognize it
Everywhere
Everywhere it's aground

Swimming up a concrete river
Paddling through pine and pavement
I melted
Blent in and then recemented

Inside an unprotected hostel suite
Astride a bicycle defrosting wheat
Atop a tower with an unrevolving view
Of illuminated sails

Grey and green
Grey and green
The brightest blue could never come between
Grey and green
And amber

Rowing toward a lowered drawbridge
Clambering onto the Seawall
Confecting cloud-covered cinnamon rolls
Wowed by crowds of Glaucous-winged Gulls

See? No sea
"Look at the harlequins!"
I wish you'd said to me
Over a decade I discerned a path
My passport went defunct
Now that junket's out of reach

Grey and green
Grey and green
The reddest flags forever come between
Grey and green
And amber

Everybody's body sways in unfamiliar funny ways
Traveling on rainbow wheels of color down below
The crows pecking suet-surfaced streets
The subway sounds resounding beats
Beckoning me to retreat
On the heels of mighty feet!

But where there's a will, there's a way
And I will every day until I dry
Every day until I dry

Wait, wait
Don't tell me
Blare the Heritage Horns but I won't leave

I haven't heard firstear
The 9 o'clock gun
Or the steam chimes

I've yet to feel firstfoot
The boom of the Sooty Grouse
In the mountain woods

I have more notes to take
On the colors of the
Land in my mind

I have a wish to blow
Through the mist
Of the dandelion fountain

I have a truth to seek
In the xeriscape
Of the hill on the hill

I have a past, a present
And a future in this city

Maybe no more than moments
But there's still a possibility
Ee, ee