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ALARMS

At first blush, your winter sky was all stars:
back-lit, full moon-filled, your bell jar.
By morning, with thrush song, the work day:
cover up for crow's feet and heartache.

Undone by alarms in the night,
the firemen hosed them down with the house,
a charcoal dream against sky.

With new love, one hints at what a future holds:
hackneyed summer romance, winter cold.
Mourning doves mourn along the fence line
of white paint and white oak against white pine.

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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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