“And my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines;
come on home now!
All my bones are dolorous with vines!”

—  Joanna Newsom

Ys (2006)
Context: And everything with wings is restless,
aimless, drunk and dour;
butterflies and birds collide, at hot ungodly hours.
And my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines;
come on home now!
All my bones are dolorous with vines!

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