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Violet

from Colour Trio I by Erica Bramham

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lyrics

Here where the earth collects the rain
Am I salty or sour,
Pickled or brined?
There, take a scalpel to my womb
And I spill like caviar
Tumble and sink into the season.

I have always wanted
A garden that fills each year
With deep green, creeping violet leaves.

Here wrapped up in a paper gown
My clothes a perfect folded square,
White webs of tissue dancing on a screen
There beneath the cold, cold jelly slides
The lump in my breast
Is it something, or simply nothing at all?

I used to think I wanted
Not just the garden
But to sow my stories in a child's breast

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In the waiting room
the clocks are holding their breath.
If like Sappho the smallest fragments of my life are found,
How will I be rebuilt again?
Reassembled word by word?
In the waiting room
the clocks are holding their breath.
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Here within your arms I am a flower
Pressed between the pages of a book,
A leaf within a leaf
All my colours safe within your heart
My story pinned
Firmly to your chest

So rake cool damp soil across my belly
Let me return each year
To wander freely on your breath.

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from Colour Trio I, released July 8, 2022
Erica Bramham: voice, double bass, glass harp, percussion, production, mixing & mastering

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Erica Bramham Melbourne, Australia

Genre-slippery songs, soundscapes and improvisations.

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