you were the mother who said to her child you bring it up slowly all of these buoys they mark the traps and you were the only woman for fifty miles who could lift something like that you d cook them up in seawater soon as you got back reva thereafter up to the rafters up through the plaster up through the highest beams i will sing of your wonder in a voice like thunder sometimes your heart bursts at its seams the sound of a nighttime passing train wakes me from a slumber the creeping of time keeps me awake won t let me go under but sometimes forgetting is all you need to get some sleep why have you left here and what does it mean for me reva thereafter up to the rafters up through the plaster up through the highest beams i will sing of your wonder in a voice like thunder sometimes your heart bursts at its seams you wrote the letters one by one into the setting of the sun tell me what was it like to send yourself into the light that night reva thereafter up to the rafters up through the plaster up through the highest beams i will sing of your wonder in a voice like thunder sometimes your heart bursts at its seams