Lantern lens catches desert sun
Keeper watches waits for no one
One two three four hit the floor
Wire hums beneath the veranda door
Dust kicks up on cracked stucco walls
Wire man shakes at noon heat haze
Lantern glass reflects his tangled fall
Salt air memory won't erase
Knots bite deep on weathered pine rail
Gull cries fade in New Mexico wind
Lamp room rhythm steadies frail
Storm logic pulls him back again
Santa Fe wire cuts the blue sky clean
Veranda traps what ocean left behind
Santa Fe wire cuts the blue sky clean
He walks the line where two worlds bind
Coil rope hangs from copper elbow joint
Adobe shadow stretches long and thin
Fog horn phantom rings a distant point
Balance keeps the chaos tucked within
Knots bite deep on weathered pine rail
Gull cries fade in New Mexico wind
Lamp room rhythm steadies frail
Storm logic pulls him back again
Santa Fe wire cuts the blue sky clean
Veranda traps what ocean left behind
Santa Fe wire cuts the blue sky clean
He walks the line where two worlds bind
No beacon sweeps this arid night
Just buzzing sign moth wings beat
But fingers know the splice and bite
Muscle memory finds the beat
Whoa-oh walk it off walk it off
Whoa-oh light the lamp light the lamp
Santa Fe wire cuts the blue sky clean
Veranda traps what ocean left behind
Santa Fe wire cuts the blue sky clean
He walks the line where two worlds bind
Salt wind drifts through desert pine
Knot holds fast on Santa Fe line
