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Between Mountains

from Songs of Desire and Belonging by Cole Blu

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My dear, I’m afraid I broke my shadow
with each step down the mountain, on a
sixteen-mile hike away from you.
Flanked fir, granite stairs, hand-carved and mossy
with abandonment: the path
was a walk through strangers; crowds collide with me

and every impact steals little shards from my shadow:
tiger’s eye reflections spilled like soot into dusty streets,
into wand’ring pathways weary between peaks

My dear, like a desperate ant or a fearful soldier,
in that expanse of delirious forest,
I’m drinkless and long past dry -
Noontide, the waxing sun always washes
that southern shadow from my back,
but evening, from the north,

speckles the steps ahead, over roots and under stoplights (as do
stars painted at night unbleached by the city glow, empty),
but I follow like one blind to starlight,

with an outstretched hand
(but here I’ve seen it before,
there’s nothing blocking it from me save
myself, and the silhouettes I paint on
that northern path, looming in moonlight).
Looming and luminous when the southern
sun strikes in morning, but for all
emotions I’m neither here nor there, and
a little lost-

July 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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