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Baiulus
01:33
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Fragile Meadow
03:31
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Fragile Meadow
Woman, tranquilly labouring at our love’s cultivation
I do believe, I am fortunate to have met you
Woman, how ephemeral our grace is in these wind stricken plains
I do believe, it is our fate to reside here
Away from the mountains of youth and safety
In a fragile meadow
Woman, I see you bloom in this sun that we have shaped
I do believe, you are my companion and a true lover
Through our rains and wintry phases
I have come to love you for you
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Heirloom
04:05
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Heirloom
Heirloom to an old sun
Now, you are in the light trees owned for so long
In this tide that explodes on your retina
Can you still look upwards into a vacant sky?
To inhabit the winds, on your own?
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4. |
An Ocean and Peril
02:44
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An Ocean and Peril
I have neither food, nor water
I have neither pain, nor medicine
I can neither dream, nor sleep
I am in this blighted place
And, I am haunted by an ocean that beckons me
I hear its siren song of oblivion
And within contained: a sad and wonderful plea
Of eerie depths and cool embrace
I am in this blighted place
And, I am haunted by an ocean that beckons me
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Old, Dim Light
05:02
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Old, Dim Light
Old, dim light
Signed by the road
Showing us Home
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Walked-On Wood
04:55
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Walked-on Wood
Last night you were running errands with dad, in his car
Tied the ropes 'round the fence
And saved a ewe flipped on her back
Come morning, the house was full of strangers
You stood out, like knots on old, walked-on wood
One bumped off the ladder
Another moves a rung
I can feel the summer in this current
Behind your shoulders he looms
What can you say?
When winter is lodged in your throat
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Dandelion
02:39
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Dandelion
Now she walks the land
The heart of which she always belonged to
On the back ways
Finding wild flowers and stones
For a wise woman’s treasury
She set free to the wind
When the clock of her memory dispersed
Into uncountable, incomprehensible time capsules
Film rearranged on the reel
In her eyes, I would always be four years old
My dandelion
(It is not uncomplicated when the life of a loved one fades away)
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Madagascar
03:11
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Madagascar
O, great and wondrous world
How the dice of evolution came up with a surprise
To make these tiny particles come alive
And for them to drape all things
With a cosmic blanket of meaning
When dust cherishes no memories
Makes you wonder
Whether man needs the lie like air to survive
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Reverence for Fallen Trees
Solemn is the expanse of canopy
A boundless cathedral
Funneling rays into this past I could not have known
I leave memories shimmering, pristine
And, in the glint of the light on the wavelets
I am reborn, somber green
In reverence for fallen trees
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10. |
I Shall Cross This River
03:21
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I Shall Cross this River
My love, she has chosen me
For my candor of speech
She takes me to the river
Like a child at play
She sees not this bitter man
But the promise of a lover
When the darkness washes off
She moves into my arms
So too, my folks support me
Through my restless whims
They see not this failure
But the promise of a firstborn
When my darkness leaves
When my fall is complete
I shall cross this river for them
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