We came to those vacant hills To find the animals you had heard Lived there and ate each other And not to drink the blood of Boiled leaves and stems Till our eyes hid all of space And we rolled screaming Like the lovers we weren’t On rabbit scat And headed back The next day Knowing but not Talking.
We filled thermoses with chile And as we walked in the dark sang Kicking sand when the road was gone All the way to bluffs and cliffs Above the tarry Pacific black Which would slurp up our voices.