under her weather

[Verse 1] She keeps the weather in her mouth a gray profile cut from cloud blowing smoke that learns her shape and calls it something she can’t name below her the traveler is small staff in hand on the arch at all rain the color of a held breath falling through the only path [Chorus] Lady in the sky, still in control longing in the smoke she can’t let go moon under the bridge where the water knows she is watching from above and from below we are only crossing while the weather grows minuscule beneath what she already knows [Verse 2] Cancer water, Cancer light the white circle keeps the night overseeing what the blue can hold glitter in the rain and in the cold stones or ranges, either way older than the steps we take birds not painted yet still fly through the space between her and the sky [Chorus] Lady in the sky, still in control longing in the smoke she can’t let go moon under the bridge where the water knows she is watching from above and from below we are only crossing while the weather grows minuscule beneath what she already knows [Bridge (misunderstanding)] Someone else will call it only rain a heavy sky, a figure in the strain a dream that never meant to stay a crossing with no one looking down that way the smoke just weather, the moon just light the traveler moving through an empty night no longing, no control, no name just paint and scale and weather all the same [Final Chorus] Lady in the sky, or only cloud longing or the shape the brush allowed moon under the bridge or just a mark she is watching, or the dark is only dark we are only crossing, small against the arc whatever story holds us in the weather’s mark