Waterless

from Dead Reckoning by The Warp/The Weft

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​Those pendants you wore
before the war began:
do you want them still?
They say they're American-made.
Does that mean something?

No shortage of warmth
on the hearth where our wet gloves dry,
snow-soaked yet finding the form
fickle hands left behind.

This horoscope warns of a harbor
where ships collide.
Though no wake when we wake,
somehow we've lost the night.

In the middle of the city
there's a fountain—
ugly, concrete, waterless.

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from Dead Reckoning, released August 12, 2019

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The Warp/The Weft Poughkeepsie, New York

Blending traditional and avant-garde styles, the warmth of a good wool sweater and the sometimes-bleak cold of an upstate winter, the progressive folk and psychedelia that the band brings to bear is propelled by poetic lyrics and a "spirit-conjuring" lilting tenor that prompted psych-folk legend Tom Rapp (of Pearls Before Swine) to ask, "Can I have your voice when you're through with it?" ... more

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