till we don't be.

(alaska, again: ballaine lake on the uaf campus, 11 pm, july 27)

We could stand for a century,

Staring,

With our heads cocked,

In the broad daylight, at this thing:

Joy.

Landlocked in bodies that don't keep,

Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being,

Till we don't be.

-- Joanna Newsom, 'Emily' (mp3 here)