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Coldest night of the winter

Working up my farewell

In the middle of everything

Under no particular spell

Dreaming of the mountains

Where the children learn the stars

Clouds roll in from Nebraska

Dark chords on a big guitar

My restlessness is long gone

Standing like an old jack pine

I’m looking for Rexroth’s daughter

She’s a friend of a friend of mine

Can’t believe your hands and mouth

Did all that to me

And they are so daily naked

For all the world to see

That thunderstorm in Michigan

I never will forget

We shook right with the thunder

And with the pounding rain got wet

Where did you turn when you turned from me

With your arms across your chest

Ya, I'm looking for Rexroth’s daughter

Saw her in the great northwest

Would she have said it was the wrong time

If I had found her then

I don’t ask very much

A field across the road and a few good friends

She used to come & see me

She was always there & gone

Even the very longest love

Do’nt last very long

She’d stood there in my doorway

Smoothing out her dress

Saying 'life is a thump-ripe melon-

-so sweet and such a mess'

(I wanted to get to know you

But you said you were shy

I would have followed you anywhere

But hello rolled into goodbye

I just stood there watching

As you walked along the fence

Beware of them that look at you

As an experience

You’re back out on the highway

With your poems of city heat

I’m looking for Rexroth’s daughter

Here on my own side street)

Well, The murderer who lived next door

Seemed such a normal guy--

You try to swallow what they shove at us

You run out of tears to cry

I heard a man speak quietly

I listened for a while

He spoke from his heart to my woe

And then he bowed & smiled

What is real but compassion

As we move from birth to death

Ya, I’m looking for Rexroth’s daughter

And I’m running out of breath

Spring will come back I know it will

And it’ll do its best

So useful, so endangered

Like a lion or a breast

I think about my children

When I look at any child’s face

Pray that we will find a way

To get with all this amazing grace

It’s so cold out there tonight

Stormy I can hardly see

I’m looking for Rexroth’s daughter

And I guess I always will be

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