I Could Not Shift the Shadow - Current 93

I could not shift the shadow

Or form sugar for your halos

Channelled table-taps from ghost gods

Prowled and slept in steep ships

Mixed mythology with pathology

Tossed a coin and hymned the groves

Then did you scent the wind drop

And count the codes of seeds?

And did you call the night «bright»

And drink the sex of stars?

Or might you cartoon 'Ιοδας Judas

And cast in flower rooms?

Your breath flickered next to my breath

Humming noise and rhyming sweet songs

That your mouth had heaped up like rivers

And buried deeper in your hearts

Unzipped Æeons and cradled antlers

Opened your face and gave your grave

Opened True Moon opened thousand

Nights and paths under mountain flames

Spelled the gardens as the cock crowed

And spoke slowly as the laughter rose

In dragonflies and PussyWillows

Dreamt your lips like Kings and Queens

So open up your mouth

And in your invisible church

Under sun whilst cats purr

Gorgeous dreams under dark nights

And tender rhymes under SwallowFlight

And lovely BirdSong sings

What is the cost of sand in Anarch?

What is the cost of blood as mist?

What is the cost of the child in your heart

With his castleface?

Who is the coat Teller wore?

And Tell me your great Name

In torrents of birds

Kiss me your real Name

And wait for the sun to bring you open

And bare your naked church

Into my mouth