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Colleen – I’ll Read You A Story


(The video is also incredible)
A silver strand
A single truth
Sharp as glass
Hard as tooth.                             yellow
                                       the        sun
               Yet here it is        in           flowing
                             dancing                 in
                                                   the
                                                summer
                                              air
                                           pecking
                                          grassy
                                           hair
                                            of
                                            trampled
                                                glades.

Setting fire
            to a bear
Sending all of life
                   to Hades
Reckless                    
        Warpath          
                          smoke and
                      the        dark         alone.
                    in           a           stand
          Yet ebbing         glint          to
                              of           meant
                           some          never
                           thing        whole
                              sharp    of
                                   a piece

I stay sitting because I remember who we used to be.
I don't stand up because I know who you are now.
But if you keep pushing I will slowly
                                      tip

                                        off
.
.
                                          the
.
.
.
.
                                          edge.
 image: netzanette

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I loved the things I couldn’t see

12 Jul

Black Moth Super Rainbow – Untitled Roadside Demo

and you only loved the things you could hold in your hand.

But I cut my fingers today, and couldn’t hold anything real well.
You told me about your children and what they should be.

You could pass on the torch, but don’t give it to me.

because you know,
my fingers.

image: John “K”

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Vision

6 Jul

Sufjan Stevens – God’ll Ne’er Let You Down

I had a vision, that the world didn’t end.

But you don’t see me buying up billboard space.

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American Analog Set – Born On The Cusp (demo)

How dare I write about love. Still new to this world in the eyes of knotted woods. “Every child begins the world again,” and there are tread paths to follow. My eyes have seen some sunlit canopies, and I have seen stars through the leaves, and they have lighted my way in many a dark, unexplored night. I’ve seen deep inky caves, and crisp mornings in corn stalk plots, but the eyes of sewing needles have seen what I have not. Sewing needles not complicated, not bogged down or spiral eyed, a simple needle that’s hard to find.

image: JonathanCohen, colon+right.bracket

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Pink Tea Temptations

21 Jun

Rogue Wave – Postage Stamp World

She always smiled at me
and I always wore my intentions on my sleeve.
Or so I believed.
But none of us are that complex,
we are all see though obvious.
Swirling mists
on a swirling sea.
Our sleeves are hard to see.
She always smiled at me,
and all I could ever see was green.
And so I believed.

You always smiled at me,
and somewhere hurricanes ripped up beachside trees.
A simple step a simple glance,

getting killed by avalanche.

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A Rhino, A Wall

19 Jun

Sounds of Faces – We Sped Slower

Both brewing in the calm.

May the best man win.

Thick skin, or serenity within.

I think you’ll find I side with him.

image:Gail Johnson

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Erasers and Napkins Remove the Mistakes of Millions

16 Jun

Dntel – Fort Instructions

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some of us were never meant to change the world

14 Jun

Kings of Convenience – Scars On Land

Falldown crash steady pace and snare angels dance round the sides of your head a scramble-brain and a soft voice to keep at ease record scratching voice like, like, like footsteps echo down the hall bring me back hard sole shoes bristle and cold, reflection of the sound in the shine tile a lie to the brain a trick of the shade a day’s a day no longer than any other silver night snow slept while I wept at my window the face in the tile wished me goodnight the drama the line skewed in the light of mind gimmick flash shine upon trash tricks here and gone drone of a lovers life where there’s no love at all and I stare outside and pretend I’m all alone the gone the hope.