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How Do You Mourn?
06:01
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How do you mourn?
Open all the windows and doors
watch the forest take over
mother of foxes makes a nest in your clothes
vines grow into every circuit
lichen dreams its way through your pores
How do you mourn?
Throw your body overboard
coral fingers run through your hair
old forms dissolve and old scars liquify
underwater it never rains
the sea grasses bind what bleeds
and nothing here stains
How do you mourn?
I have never been here before
opera houses fill with hungry wolves
faded stars and a makeshift moon
mountain peaks scarred by ocean tides
the forever lie
the broken turnstile
Maps are melting in my palms
swamp of liquid light riles behind my eyes
an empty chair
a stone in my shoe
you’re with me all the time
the bones of my fingers
the synapses of my mind
there’s nothing to reveal and there's nothing
to hide
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Rise Up, Leviathan
09:05
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Rise up, leviathan
No more names
No more currencies
Three fates
stranded, hungry, bone-tired
awaken wild eyed in the cold clear night
No one is wrong
No one is right
No one survives
Rise up, leviathan
Draw the skin of the sun for me, darling
draw the bones of the sea for me, darling
it's always dawn
it's always midnight
draw the carcass of the ebbing tide
Rise up, leviathan
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Avi C. Engel Toronto, Ontario
they/them
I'm not writing the same song over and over so much as writing one long
continuous song that will end when I die.
receive all new music in digital form: www.patreon.com/aviengel
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