Caught Song

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by Peyton Houston from "Occasions in a World", Heritage Printers, 1969

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The extravagant way

That you spend brightness

Makes me hope

Some shining will fall on me.

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Could I spend coins

Of song for you?

A wealth of music

Would go where you go

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How can I answer

Grace becoming?

Quickened voice strings

Cannot praise enough.

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Quickened heart strings

Give me music:

You cast your shining

in a sudden web.

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I am caught

Fish in your net:

I am the fabled fish,

Song the coin in my mouth.

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