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She's Not There (Here)
03:44
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it won’t always be like this
jump some years in some direction
connecting stars and keys
she hits those chords and the piano purrs
the moment hangs there
in the fragrant mid-air
want that moment, this moment, this is where
I just want to be free
I just want to be here (there)
won’t let the ratio of blood singing to sleepy eyes
discourage knowing what’s real, just orbited away
it won’t always be like that
last night, we slept on the back of a lion running
tonight, we’re in tall grass in separate fields
plants still sway at the edge of our seeing
but we hear one heart and not three
(the feeling that’s felt’s felt slowly)
all those boys with their beautiful hair
strum guitars and build fires
to connect darknesses in the wind
they’re calling out in some direction
with drums and gales and strong chests and songs and phones
all those girls with their books and records
songs and seasons and memories
stories, stereoscopic, repetition
and now to wonder how to touch and live whatever it is
and not just write poetry and songs about it
whatever it is
tonight, I want to sleep inside a piano
feel your muscles under your skin
hold my ear against your chest
close my eyes and hear a lion again
run fingers and tongue along the high strings
chromatic scales and feathers
the good and sweet things resonate
the forest finds a way inside here
it will always be like this
my favorite girl has fox-ears
and my favorite girl flies barefoot
my favorite girl knows me as well as herself
and my favorite girl dreams of songs by rivers at night
my favorite favorite girl’s not there (here)
all my friends painting words and candles
and stars on the ceilings of places
they’ll only live and glow in for a couple of years
do they wonder how to touch and live whatever it is
or just sing poetry and songs about it?
it won’t always be like this
plants still sway
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Quarter Moon Swoon
06:08
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this is a forest
and here are the things we know that roar:
bears, amplifiers, stars and their children,
any place where moving water touches,
land, the night,
the roar of the beginning, and joy
moving in moments when the present jumps and dives
from a great height
from a loud place
we can be oceans
we can sleep in those fields
as liquid sparks accumulate around us
everything, for as long as you want
is the lens through which the light passes red?
or was the ocean made crimson by the seeds of pomegranates?
can you see all of this, too?
I know you now in such warm light
I listen to the ocean in you
with my cheek against your throat
and my hand on your hip
during this time that isn’t time
your breathing becomes the entire world
I know you best in warm, low light
falling, happy, lavender: in silence.
our hearts pounding
those waves have such force behind them
as they fill all 70 millimeters
and twenty to twenty-thousand hertz
many hours of the best days
on the beaches, in the valleys near silence
you are a woodland lion
and a live, lithe, fluid wire moving underneath
conducting
let’s lie down in this library
graceful and imprecise
draw shadows on the ceiling
pull some night into our lungs
what’s been a long time coming
may be a long time going, too
and remembering is echoing, too
is it time to go?
I know you now in such warm light
I listen to the ocean in you
with my cheek against your throat
and my hand on your hip
past perfect, this was a forest
drifting above substantial loudness
dig this lush languid exposition
thinking/not thinking
and falling: in silence
little fox
little fire
little flower
paw-prints in the snow
the best thing in a long time
remember all those steps in the snow?
remember how fast the clouds were moving
when we stood still?
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Infinity Girls Cleveland, Ohio
Infinity Girls are an experimental rock group formed in 2000 and headquartered more or less in Cleveland, Ohio.
(band photo: Mary Ann Winters)
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