Folk Queue

let there be songs to fill the air

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Lucinda Williams: "Bonny Portmore"



all the birds in the forest
they bitterly weep
saying, "where
shall we shelter,
and where
shall we sleep?"
for the oak and the ash
they are all cut down,
and the walls
of bonny Portmore
are down to the ground

--Lucinda Williams
Bonny Portmore