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Into the Marrow

from Mapping an Absence by The Warp/The Weft

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INTO THE MARROW

Isn’t it evident that you are all I hold close?
With windows open I can hear
the death knell from a neighboring chapel.

In a drawer I keep
a woolen mouse-nest.
Beyond the beveled panes of windows
I keep snow.

I stay up all night to hear
the hungry owl, a lonesome
coyote’s howl, the voice of a love
I don’t know anymore.

A kiss as startling
and presaging as a bird
against the windshield.

The blizzard took your foot steps
before morning with a rehearsed sigh
for the new year,
like a cancer already into the marrow.

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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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