And The Whisper (of the wide woods mouths your name)

from Eat Honey, Taste Mud by House Sparrow

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Let the party rage around you, lay you dying
Each pinprick of sunlight coming in is another line
Each bit of carpet twirling your frozen fingers through another fun time

Let that air cold inside you, bare fingers clasped round the box you hold
Intention in breath
and a few good dents,
well-loved moments, kept secrets, direct vents

The world swirls around you, back to the wall
A rock in the sun or a pebble in the hole
Eyes out on you water lapping glass soul, let your dress fall, let your dress fall
And the smoke curls at you like dirty river current, and they’re calling your name
You and the wall you show are not the same,
stand up to share, then shrink away
Stand up to show you’re strong, then shrink away,

cigarette smoke a prayer climbing up to a fat moon, the biggest in decades,
watching your fire burn bright hot and then blue and strange

And the whisper of the wide woods mouths your name
And the bark and the leaves and the mold echo the whisper back to a street in the rain
You’re drawn to each branch and each stone and each quiet patch of quiet shade
Climbing, now, reaching always

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from Eat Honey, Taste Mud, released October 20, 2017

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