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[introit]
(alors, une autre année a déjà passé dans cette capsule...)
toute seule au-dessus des éthers
on sent des sentiments abstrus
supprime des mots rétroéclaires
et lâche les baisers attendus
(je suis encore là...)
finalement, elle a decouvert
après le décès de l'encens
et les balbutiments grinçants
la source de sa détresse larvaire
les rêves dont elle n'avait jamais
rêvé ont inondé son ciel
et sous cette étendue au miel
y'a'n esprit au plu-que-parfait
i am awake from a death that lingers on
in a solitude of inward life...
there is no health
in a heavenly body consumed
in the light of a lilac moon
at the sound of the seventh bell
is the word you foretell
[an entanglement of past symbols dissolves into meaninglessness]
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Guinefort's Grave
05:31
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[thunder rolls in]
inauspicious daylight
your infant son a viper's prey
i do my duty
on your return i greet you
with dewy reds and fatal jaws
myopic impulse
you take up your sword
put me down
put me down
in vengeance kill your faithful hound
lay me down
lay me down
regret enshrines me underground
they venerate me
make invocations falsely
and offer salt
all that separates their children
from wildland sickness and the fauns
is a candle's fire
the breadth of a thumb
put me down
put me down
in vengeance kill your faithful hound
lay me down
lay me down
regret enshrines me underground
put me down
put me down
my brittle body is rent and drowned
[the dog, pt.1]
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Ubi Sunt
04:41
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yawning ocean
of days adrift and calm
catatonic, watching sundown
tremble against the wall
washed out and faint
i wait for nightfall
in the mist of dusk
backscattered, i see it:
the shadow of an observer
a spectre cast by a spectre
where are my friends?
where are my memories?
where is my childhood?
where is my tomorrow?
[äääääääää]
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4. |
Phlebotomy
03:17
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[thunder chorale]
my blood is ebbing into bitumen
estradiol and serum albumin
i count the months for flesh to rectify
by timelapsed clouds against a frozen sky
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5. |
Inward Life (We Exist)
03:35
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from highland rivers
to cambridge rooftops
rosa you follow
an inward life
meaning from hollow
an inward life
(there is more love than you could possibly expect)
(we exist we exist)
[the seventh bell tolls]
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Black Moon, Lilith
05:10
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under an ebbing earth's shadow
breathing in a century's mouldy air
i feel my cheeks become crimson
she sits as a mirror
of desires and insecurities
wilfully tousled
tailored in twill
holding a notebook
she carries herself in my mind
like a student of arts
or of architecture
an augur bewitching
cognisance awakes in the bonfire
averts the gaze in shameful negation
intestines twisted in longing
for alignment of the observable
with the ideal locked and noumenal –
calm, calm down!
get over yourself!
she's still there: reminder of love
aching with shivers at its dawning
and how special it is
to be submerged in her sight
and tentatively kiss…
i build myself in her image
with velvet skin and watercoloured eyelids
this body is no longer granite
a vision of lilith
overtakes me and whelms me and
i'm so happy
i'm so happy
i'm so so fortunate
to be falling asleep in your arms
to be at peace with it all
[alleluia]
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7. |
Asleep in Wildland Fire
05:04
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last night i found us reconciled
through sleep's meniscal silver screen
supine beneath the waiting sky
of quartz struck through with tourmaline
the grass was softly cradling
our bodies lost in weightless strands
and silent conversation played
between our penitential hands
i am ready, i am ready, i am ready
i felt your once familiar warmth,
calm and forgiving without spite
the field engulfed in soft blue smoke
and flames made primrose in the light
i am ready, i am ready, i am ready
[the house burns]
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Quinta del Sordo
02:45
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[the dog, pt.2]
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9. |
Pluperfect Mind
08:21
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[thunder’s whisper]
pluperfect mind
to separate histories in two
the ancient life of an unknown self
forsworn in forgetmenot blue
pluperfect mind
procession of paradox lines
a monologue of an anxious girl
with nebulous future designs
pluperfect mind
that pummels and injures the skin
in bygone shame and in questioning
fixation on what might have been...
[laika bids thunder farewell]
[and thunder bids laika farewell]
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