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Reservoir

by Ah Holly Fam'ly

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1.
Young Veins 03:56
oh my precious young veins will welcome my blood home far as it often strays and as darkness descends will my breath prefer the fog fast as it's out of me and my blood's run away will its connection to its home dissolve into disgrace it's just a stranger's betrayal et tu, whoever you are? shadow, as you please fall on our blank-faced refusal often bone-bleached by the winds I can recall those days and it aches for refrain but I'm bent down by the knee just to see how I saw then I'm sorry for what I threw over the curve of the earth pale and all the wind is just the dying breaths of days they gather into years and into centuries rise, you'll never relive those days or ever regain that time s'alright though, you would not want to after all it led you here fire and light from the dying day be drowned by the rising waves
2.
a traffic ticket the tick-tock of it all by the time this is resolved I'll have been so busy picking burrs off of my clothes there's no need to pick it the flower will fall from the bough no need to button-hole it don't vase it, face up to it it's never really ever going to fit very well by any place besides the bough never really ever going to fit very well by any side besides its own all unfolding sure, it will shrivel, shed its pedals all unfolding best let bloom nonetheless all unfolding I bet you could not guess the rest though all unfolding oh bother oh burden oh burred bough give it up for the moonlight (oh yeah) give it up for a day like give it for the burred bough and this thistleless finger
3.
I saw you at the end when your rain of rust arrived when copper colors sparkled in the slits of your shoes I knew you were ashamed rode alone into the night but we didn't care if you wore a wound or no wound think of this you were of earth when our posture was still simple when my hair was still cut straight across my ankles speck of serpent ship arises over the horizon by fossilized light I can recall the times when your charm-chain wore thin we went away in the year of the viking I have sewn the surgery don't concern yourself with our burden we hear you sing of meadows, meta-sentimental reservoirs those days are gone there are no shores which are not yet carved
4.
open your eyes and an army of light marches in through the arch and slaughters the darkness they're miming a gag mock-cocking a revolver a shrug of disgust caustic, sarcastic laughter so I close my eyes and drift off to a different place when we woke to sea steam rising us high up above days that disgraced us when the heated evening thunder dissolves their rod of operation and their torch of correction is doused out in the ocean for good we loved the breeze by the fragrant southern shore when we wore the mangled shade of palms the corral colony the steam at dawn the muted drudgery's triumphant warmth our honey colored moon lay low on hum click birds kissing hibiscus bells
5.
Blow ogre cloud bring goblin wind the howl of yonder friend as brother begins to sing cloud chorus join in with him if the stranger maker came and made us strangers once again and we forgot all we know I know paw prints in the snow glow gold if you feel my fangs tuck into your skin or you feel cold or your brother is not at home hear me sing the cloud's part as I cough up a moth you may float up my sigh brotherly butterfly better off on the forest floor than to thunder above the thorns when I hear you howl rise pheasant, rise grouse the nag knows the stallion well I suppose that holy ghost is only ah holly gust of wind
6.
Lucky Peak 04:50
I was born by here Beverlying by the lock Kating down the wind-blown cove we rode coffins like cool surf boards up the steam the reservoir drank three feet lie behind the hatchery she is quietly try to swim to me beneath wake when I lie back and close my eyes polly-wogging for a handful Briesing from the precipii up high, up high I can drink and breath the reservoir landscape and the ringing where the wake subsides don't curse in the canyon we were sandled against the sand summered beneath eagled dam
7.
what's the lonliest city spin a globe arond put your finger down and it's there or where a dart lands on a map of the world in what region are folks lonliest the most on what coast do ghosts go to be alone when they don't want to haunt no one nothing at all it's called the break of day the labor's re-divided okay, go stoke a flame but leave its glow at home glowering with no one to warm retro-colonial strawberry roan or blue if you choose or perhaps a dancing stallion makes Pangean pan-pipes play tunes old we recall its shape through song we brought these beasts across the sea while celebrating sex with mermaids we would marry fish if we could we would re-marry every shore with our old and lonely flag yeah, I'm talking to all you people in Antartica the Tropics aren't above you (naw) I bet you know what I mean
8.
though the forest betrayed me I still expect I hear you huff and howl out the song of the shade in the woods I knew well and if I hear even one twig snap I'll know your hoof has betrayed you song of the centaur is ringing from hell and the salt of the century flavored so well a crown of holly will not remove the taste when I'm near the needle trees tremble my foot falling scatters a family of deer deck the halls with the things I shook from my hair where I went to be wild's where I left to make songs so to get a rise out of the sun I wake up and it's me who sings the moon to sleep and makes the branches stop clattering and the dead die again and it's you who looks grey and blue the horse half of you is blacked out by the shade and my hive from the ivy lights up
9.
Rainstick 03:36
At night time a screech owl swoops down and raises my heart from chest a fish plucked from the water that fast random people in their cars see my heart rise in lights flash over the highway clouds cover the moon I loose sight of lights from the town settle into the dessert the day's done the town's stirred the fire old shadows slip out of the silos train whistles worship the distance the brush rattling brings my old friends coals bruise under the wind weeds tumble into the moonlight motes rise from pried open sarcophagi right when my eyes close my buddies all tumble and swirl and regain their place by my side thick as thieves, thinner than fog now in the morning an eagle swoops down and puts my heart in its place amber gris to waves returned the doom always resumes then that fast
10.
Gliders 01:19
from up high I still see light from other days amber waves of ashes all are taken by the wind gliders glide the one and five mile mighty reservoirs the gliders miles over the adjoining river's wind lay late day shadows down as dusk decays into night time gliders go

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released October 15, 2009

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