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Arteries of Earth & Ocean EP

by Shane Murphy

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Blossom 02:16
Hold me back Dam my waters Let pool the flood Water in your garden Spring shoots up & willow switches weep over me I weep over rock & earth & death & birth & furthermore The blessings when I rise Are bells on the verge Of blossom Peals I carry to the sea Inept hands cupping music Wherein dreams may burnish dreams I have no vision but the earth Sounds still young
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All of the catkins and the pinecones find a home, find a home on your windshield. Small gypsies moved by wind and rain: home is temporary. And the rain compels you to cry, compels you to cry or bow like a wheatfield. Hands made a vessel for that water. Cold and alone, and alone, they lose sleep here: Small mysteries steeped in joy and pain. Loam from the estuary and a garden rich by and by--fertile claim by and by distilled from love's sweet yield: arteries of earth and a whimpering ocean. Marcy is hidden by the clouds-- her bare shoulders cold. Our blood, it sings her song.
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Yucca-bland your salutations after long silence, gentle deception frequent--I learned anyway of ten occasions--but kisses made to straddle that absence were one verb and full sentence full to the end, point where no point is better or blessing. Decisively in sleep the wonders all return. Warm in a cobbled house, you redressing the subconscious obligation always to outlast the present. April: I am raking maple leaves in a windstorm.

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released April 7, 2012

All songs written, performed and recorded by Shane Murphy, 2012,
except "Love in the Asylum," a poem by Dylan Thomas.

Photo by Don Pettit, nasa.gov.

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