Make it sing thin in half light.
Move your knee an inch to the side
and the pedal steel sings new.
Make it gentle because it must be
gentle. Press me down in the sound
in light, in half light. Farther down.
Make it slow like the swirl of
sawdust in air, soft like sawdust.
Hold me in the air and sway.
Flex your ankle to lift me up
on a sad song. Oh Shenandoah.
Every limb move slow. Hold me
in the air, hold me to the center of you.