New Mexico's No Breeze

God gave you red light on every green road sign when you left Santa Fe

We were two string beans and you were too nineteen to be blowing away

There were thieves in the square hiding hands and hiding prayers in all their mumbling

Nothing left you alone, tangled hills and tiny verio singing something

Stuck with her pin curls, your mama was scared of the world, it was born with a bang

I was stepping on sea shells by the old Mission San Miguel when a bell tower rang

And the sky fell apart heard the rain, I heard your heart, and what was spoken

Was "nothing begs for a name, nothing wants to stay the same, and nothing's broken"

When your friends and their friends passed the pipe or tied the knot

Honeymoon music played in the drive thru parking lot

I woke up by your bed, you were wandering around the yard

Window wide as a day but the sun just hit too hard

Little low votive doors, Mama's house slowed a little more every evening

Naked boys throwing stones, beady eyes and desert bones, they saw you leaving

God gave you bobwhites and the good kind of black night when you left Santa Fe

New Mexico's no breeze and you were so nineteen, you were blowing away