A Welcoming of Owls

from Mapping an Absence by The Warp/The Weft

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A WELCOMING OF OWLS

You will seem unique and lovable I will
tell you so the next moment
I will go
back on what I said these long
hours with arms raised
to your chandelier
dusting its crystals
The moon now
cradling a star it will have been
a welcoming of owls
one last night siphoned from
endless day

I have dreamed a field unalterable you will
fain plow and sow the next morning
I will grow
rich with dirt and dread these
long hours with arms raised
toward the coming year all rust in the cistern
The moon now
cradling a star it will have been
a welcoming of owls
one last night sweetens
the last old day

Loaded down with ore and boredom
the waves beyond
the window break the oarsmen

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from Mapping an Absence, released July 28, 2017

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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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