Responsorial

 Responsorial

Listen to yourself, dear, 

She’d say, 

Holding my hand,

Winds whipping whisps about 

In our hair

As I was leaving, 

Always leaving in the heat blowing

The dry sultries that settled like

Barely breathing mantles we shouldered in 

Those Great Plains summers

She always said that to me.

I want what I want. 

Look at yourself, I say to him, recalling

Timeless words, wisdoms shared, 

Becoming braver in the recall, and saying 

What I want with you 

More stability

More understanding

More space

I want all that 

And I want to love you in 

The ways of love. 

And also

But also, 

And I also

Want all that

That I have and will never 

Not want anymore,

And flying above and under the

Beyond, the past and future, 

I say to him, I will never crave more of 

The precious than what we have. 

Coda 

There were years before she saw 

That river again

Though she crossed too many to 

Remember

Save 

The Little Huerfano, an 

Unchained melody