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All wings and needy arms float lightly, bathing in the glow
of a melting candle, slowly burning, beautiful and bright
on a winter night, wax cascades on wax, sensuous and slow
And this starry-eyed moth creeps ever closer, enchanted, I’m sure-

And once, all hair and needy legs crawled quietly in
my childhood attic: a lonely and longing caterpillar, lost
and hungry among old hewn beams, and old pictures of young people -
but crushed leaves fell from my hands, and, sated,
he slept through colder seasons-

The moth and the butterfly emerged at once,
all midnight wandering and fragile tragic limbs
cocoon and chrysalis split open, all wet wings
and aloof antennae, and distant lights -

Candles burned behind moonlit fogged windows of a cheap sedan
on a backroad, all hands on windows and whispered warmth, and how we flocked-
the obscured glow tantalized eclipses; the glass pane harder
than to bend for water, or to reach for low branches; Tantalus! Tantalus! Upon the barrier,
we broke ourselves.

Shattered wings, falling fragmented glass of ornate chandeliers
on backroads, falling, falling, or on glassy hardwood, breaking, breaking,
All broken candles and melted waxes; the roaming fires burn in your eyes
consuming mountaintops, the glow an open blaze; by moonlight, these dirt roads
tantalized me

All wings and greedy arms float forward, erotic in the glow
All needy grabs towards burning flames - mine, mine, mine - mine, mine mine mine,
But you were a burning candle, all cascading, dreaming waves
And no matter how slow your burn, in time it will show
All wings and greedy arms catch, with smoke and red
All wings and needy grabs burn, and fall to the floor
All wings and needy arms writhe, and flutter, and squirm no more

February 2015

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from Songs of Desire and Belonging, released January 22, 2021

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Cole Blu Brooklyn, New York

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Interested in the poetics and broken narrativities of memory.

Songwriter, producer, guitarist, composer.

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