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Of Broken Mirrors

from Songs of Desire and Belonging by Cole Blu

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lyrics

light, orange
like incense,
like escape;
it’s all I wanted.

And a bird of broken mirrors perched
on the wall by your bed -
I’m remembering reflections like shattered
glass on slate: your truths were
seeds grown to flowers of fantasy,
dried into incense and youth
into incense and youth

At twenty and twenty-one, white walls could
orange be lit; branches silhouette
windows and walls.
Winter-thick dusk!
With every gust, I let cold of
ten thousand trees, bareboned,
heavy, whitely whisper old hymns.
They blur into your dreaming breaths: nearby lie
cathedrals of concealed limbs.
cathedrals of concealed limbs.

Shaking sanctuary, the soft-singing
broken-mirror remembered
calls past incense, even red clouded
vision; your words sing
“Wine will warm your eyes to orange,
orange will warm rambles sown,
Sun will warm my florid shawl -
these nights, I won’t bare my snow-cloaked bones.”
I’ve forgotten my own oak bones.”

empty, we were, beneath it all
(Clouds, hollow, fleeting to touch)
you were the bird perched on your wall
(and I’d cut my fingers digging for depth)

Stilling the spinning, pausing for words,
nodding past my trembling hands:
“I fall asleep with each step through night;
this room’s all orange-incensed dreaming.
I never thought it could stand the springtime;
that I’d inhale all seeming
of broken birds or bones -
of broken birds or snow-cloaked bones.”

even the light
through broken mirrors.

Fall 2015

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

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Cole Blu Brooklyn, New York

NYC.

Interested in the poetics and broken narrativities of memory.

Songwriter, producer, guitarist, composer.

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