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Červenec
01:35
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I use my teeth
to make a tiny hole in your skin
and I climb inside
all the roads here are red and blue -
I choose a red one.
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2. |
A Low Heavy Sun
06:58
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A low heavy sun is melting into a golden horizon
a breeze tries to undress us
and all of the birds that pepper the air with sirens
are watching our hands
as we find the spaces between our bodies and fill them
with questions that ripen the skin on our bare shoulders
and echo our hearts.
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3. |
Bohemian Heatwave
05:56
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The night is so sticky
the neighbours all finish our jokes
but it's not the heat that melts
all the skin from my bones.
And I hope that our children are born with your eyes
like your mother she hoped you'd inherit her nose
but I love what your father gave you just the same.
The daylight saved for us
now melts like the ice in our drinks
but the air is so heavy
and we've thrown off our clothes.
And if I could just save I would buy you a house
somewhere cool where the neighbours don't keep us awake
but I'll love you in our little flat just the same.
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4. |
High Above The City
06:21
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High above the city
the sky is flat and grey
and I can see so far below.
A fine sheet of water
it falls so slowly down
caressing all the traffic lights.
Keyboards click and staplers crunch and printers hum
and my heart sings a melody
that tickles minutes right along
a waiting song 'til my lunch hour, and love
I miss you
all day long.
A field of black umbrellas
unfolds to greet the sky
and my feet take me through the crowd.
Past all the windows
of antique jewellery stores
nestled in the alleyways.
And around my finger winds your heart
a band of gold that whispers your name softly
as the lift ascends and takes me back up to my desk
to sleepwalk through the hours
I miss you
all day long.
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5. |
Únor of the Heart
07:10
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Your tongue lashes little sharp words that start
the feathery cracks creeping across the surface of my heart.
A hairline deepens as each
I Love You
separates to lonely islands in a sea of time
until we've come so far from the last one that we're in open water.
I expect it
but it's still a surprise when it comes
a light little blow that builds inside me until it reaches those fractures and suddenly
crash
a piece is gone.
Plunging down through my feet and into the earth where I can't ever reclaim it.
Rushing blood is warm and pools through the remaining cracks
widening them with its passage.
A slow throbbing in my chest
until
crash
another piece falls away.
This heart inside my chest now incomplete
treacherous and unpredictable.
Days can pass with no movement then
a warm memory bubbling up from an old summer begins to melt my icy defences
until
crash
another piece drops
tears through my stomach
tears through the soles of my feet
another piece of me swallowed by the earth.
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6. |
Maiden's Tear
02:35
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7. |
Two Acorns / Červen
08:38
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I asked my love did he love me
he couldn't tell me
so I asked my love to the forest
and under an oak tree
where the air was quiet
I asked my love for his pocket knife.
I asked my love for his pocket knife
and I carved our names on two acorns
I tossed them into the river
they danced across the water
and I willed them toward each other.
I asked my love did he love me: his arms unfolded.
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Erica Bramham Melbourne, Australia
Genre-slippery songs, soundscapes and improvisations.
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