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Grand Prairie
02:51
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Stars burn cold where the iris grows wild
We catch all when all goes quiet
So kiss me clear
where you left me by the lake
And we sang a new song
Under the stars of Grand Prairie
Of wonder and wound
To love him tranquilly
To hold him close
When the world waits
Wherever you find
that distant light shine
Under a magnolia
In the peace of the night
So make no mistake
by the lake when the world waits
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Kudzu
04:30
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We woke in ordinary time
And drove out east
Summer sun blows off second shift
Window down, hand lifts
At the pull-off we hopped the guardrail
Down the steep we slid
Beneath the Gauley bridge
Where you haunt me here
You haunt me here
Where I call and where you come
Where you haunt me here
Your wet hair back
We swam as tourists passed
From this rock jumps holy ghosts
Our lives through smoke
This halo haze and my heart waits
No one knows and no one asks
Do you haunt me here?
Do you haunt me here?
Say I call and say you come
Will you haunt this here?
Pickup throws headlights along hilltop roads
Spirits send songs through curtains closed
Tucked the truck away
Behind the bible college dorm
Empty rooms, the shadow of kudzu
Remember these words as we pull away
It’s like these ghosts to say
What haunts us here
What haunts us here
Say I call and say you come
Say what haunts us here
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3. |
Shade and Shadow
03:58
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Leave, leave shade and shadow
See and see, all will follow
Of church and fire
Let’s call this quiet
Night falls so keep this mild
She says the world is her child
We called you to hear what hymns you know
These seven hills in blue and gold
Last night I dreamed of everything
River swells with rain
Sweet labor sleep
She says the world holds what we leave
Warm ground brings lift to feather flight
All hold the blue of first daylight
Leave, leave shade and shadow
Leave, leave shade and shadow
And all we follow
All we follow
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4. |
Viewfinder
04:05
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On roads that show the line
And flat fields and speckled birds
From the berm of dried Queen’s lace
You’ll find me past frame
Were our hearts burning?
And were our hearts burning?
When the day turns with no notice
Its cold wind and cold bones
I kick at the gravel drive
You hold what wild you find
Were our hearts burning?
And were our hearts burning?
We see so wide the edges blur
Turn our shoulders to the wind
Without this we’re wayward and solemn
Our soil and song
Were our hearts burning?
And were our hearts burning?
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Holy Holy
02:37
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And holy, holy valley
And look back on State Line Road
And holy, holy valley
And long night moon
And sweet gospel swoon
And a grace and a calico dress
And sweet gospel swoon
But the Lord loves this mess
Long night moon
Of the holy valley
And long night moon
Of the sweet gospel swoon
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Oleander True
03:42
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If we wait outside a Phoenix church
under streetlight faith
If this takes little as a stone
beneath the ocotillo
Then I see another you
and the oleander true
If we hold what the wind
will carry home
If red yarn thrown
tangles and sways, names what we know
Then I see another you
and the oleander true
If we brace against what comes
and what we’ll say
If we know where the rains wash
to the Rio Salado
Then I see another you in the oleander true
In the oleander true
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Tulip Tree
03:30
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Oh by the light that falls on our tulip tree
Oh what comes will be what we believe
And call up those times when all seemed lost
Send them up on a summer’s wisp
Oh our tulip tree
Oh our tulip tree
Like when we gathered what had dried in our yard
Hollyhock and a bleeding heart
That night we named the moon by its month
Fixed as a fact that we held once
Oh our tulip tree
Oh tulip tree
Beneath those stars, their bears and belt
We sleep to that tired locust swell
The screen slaps where a small moth rests
Its shimmer, our light, and all we’ve left
Oh tulip tree
Oh tulip tree
And when we find that window of a home
To trace its frame, its eave, its ghosts
Oh what warms trunk to branch to leaf
Oh by the light that falls on our tulip tree
O tulip tree
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8. |
Orchard Still
03:21
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I see the forest beyond the orchard
Still you call my name
And cold comes often
And I know how to fold these days
And when we walked upon the Ohio River
Snow in your hair
We prayed our names across the valley
To the country there
So let us gather what has come unhinged
And what shines in the rain
And walk with me past our old house
And I will find our faith again
So leave me softly
By the forest cool
And above that orchard still
Hangs our paper moon
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Tim Reisert Cincinnati, Ohio
SofaBurn Records / Poetry in Root & Star
VIEWFINDER (new album)
coming soon
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