Anis Mojgani - Pancakes lyrics

I would like to take your heart smoothly out of your breast Some nights I can feel it trembling Like a silent train known by its movements across the midnight rails A shiver through a child A dog having a dream I can feel it trembling while you sleep I would like to take your heart from out of your breast and holding it with both hands Gently get up from bed and tiptoe into the kitchen Placing it carefully onto the wooden cutting board Then pull a rolling pin from its proper drawer and begin to smooth the heart out Rolling the pin slowly Back and forth Tenderly flattening the soft tissue Maybe turn on the radio at a low level and hum quietly along Rolling the pin back and forth My arms constant Moving Like pulling oars, rowing a boat towards you Or like the waves moving beneath me Back and forth Smoothing the wrinkles out Pressing down Spreading the heart across the cutting board into a wide circle Until it were flat as a pancake Then carefully peel it up Bake it Pour syrup on it And eat it like one The whole thing It makes a large pancake It is large and perfectly cooked Brown but not too brown with gold, amber ends Light and soft in the middle with a slight crisp at its edges I use my fork and knife many times It makes many bites It is sweet and fluffy When it is firmly inside of me, filling up the spaces of me that were not I will wash the utensils The plate, the board, and the pin and the pan I cooked it in I will wash my hands, turn off the lights, and head back to bed I climb in You stir a little I pull the cover over us and hold on Me, filled with a light so heavy it is the color of gold And you, finally calm- Softer- Without your quivering heart Filled now instead with a space inside you so wide and dark You can stretch your legs out Put your hands under your head and fall asleep Beneath the atmosphere that has climbed into you Spread itself like ink noiselessly above your fields Adjusting its wet stars ever so slightly to correspond with your eyesight And as you drift off Their light slowly moves with you