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Until We Wake
07:02
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To waste emotional noise,
as if it’s always by choice, sits so heavy.
We go from one to the next,
and speak while holding our breath, still repeating:
Could wake, could turn the light off and neatly say, 'until we wake'
Could go, or sit in the shadows just to stay afloat until we wake
The steps we take are unknown,
and yet we want to feel home all around us
Now, a day to count and to keep
has gone to rest at our feet, until we wake
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A Sudden Shift in Reason
10:41
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Beyond the material, vision won’t reveal
Direct, the non-optical filters into my blood
Absorb, unintentional, disguised as the cure
Destroyed all that’s rational, replaced it with doubt
A vast multiplicity contained deep within
The change, hardly visible, and still it suffocates me
The way it accumulates, with a word to the ground
A state almost normalized, yet it’s hard to ignore
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The Turning
06:10
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Out of mind, what to reveal or confide
Resting patiently in and out of sight
Living proof, waiting to look through the glass
Letting consequence pull it all undone
To wake
To feel,
To watch
As I turn the corner, the turning
Corner the turning, the corner
Turn the corner the turning
All this time, all this time
Finding ways to deny
Not enough, it’s unsafe
And inside, it’s a blur
Don’t know where to I’ve gone
Take care, take some
Back and forth, I’ve been retracing my steps
Through familiar thoughts slowly taking shape
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As It Is
01:09
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How the Light Gets In
05:57
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With each phrase, so short
We’ve worn away the way back
The way back
And how to explain
Reaching and steady
Reaching and steady
Reaching and steady the fragile balance
We lose and regain
And I’m gone
And I’m here
And I’m gone
And I’m here looking out and around
And sometimes I can’t
Find you
Find you
Find you
But, what remains is enough
And standing with unfolded arms
I’ll reassemble what I can
Piece by piece
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Restless
06:07
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9. |
To Be
04:35
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To be a cage, overflowing
A broken arm, a rusted knife
To be one thin strand among others in a web,
A split surface, a drifting gaze
To be liquid, a floating vowel,
A vacant room slowly gathering smoke,
Leaking light and movement
To be vines stretching out along the wall,
An ironed crease, a purple hue
A shadow, behind and underneath it all
To be dusk, comfortably, uncomfortably in between
A winded bridge, a shaking pulse
To be doubt, leaving behind atrophied potential
The asphalt and the cicadas underneath
To be a long thread, bunched and knotted
Entangled limbs, a firm grasp
To be full-throated, un-constricted comfort
Fleeting and rare
To be what you hoped for,
Fitting in boxes, abiding by rules
Flanked by expectations,
Mine and yours and theirs
To be ever-changing,
Cutting and ripping and tearing at the seams, a violent growth
Reinventing and mourning what's left behind
Undoing the damage
Standing and falling, knocking it all over
Again and again and again and again
To be everything,
and to be nothing
And to be
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10. |
Eusocial Behavior
05:37
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For Now Boston, Massachusetts
For Now is a quintet led by vocalist and composer Isabel Crespo. Wandering carefully between genres, For Now performs compositions influenced by modern jazz, contemporary classical music, visual art, and poetry. Fueled by an unending curiosity, they explore the personal and the political, turning complex situations into musical vignettes. ... more
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