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Milk​-​White

from Dead Reckoning by The Warp/The Weft

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"Milk-white," when used to describe skin,
is hyperbole, though a shut-in life might lead one
to that creamy lack of pigment
at least a century unloved, but still it delights
despite the sun in our eyes,
the sun in the window,
the sun on the teary refrain
of a sad song that prisms
on the whole of a rugged terrain
and the milk-white lies that skim your soul again.

"Rose-red," when used to describe lips,
is hyperbole, though lipstick gives the look
of a bleeding mouth on a milk-white face.
Eyes like cultured pearls. A shut-in life
despite the endless caress,
the tongue of the oyster,
the tongue of duress. And the sun,
when the oyster dies, prisms
along the glands, the shell, the sand--
the rose-red blood of life in clumsy hands.

[Arteries send; veins return.
The stars will shine if their fires burn.]

"Milk-white," when used to describe skin,
is hyperbole, though a shut-in life might breed some
deficiencies and phobias
in an endless echo of blood that almost delights
despite the mettle we lose,
the terror of loss,
the rose-red language we choose
for our pale song whose schism
takes nature away from man,
milk-white baby's breath from rose-red hands.

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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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