Patmos

from Torso by Cole Blu

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June light, through the trees, braiding - 
Displeased and sleepy! We’d left those libraries, burning. 
Breakfast and swimming! Drifting pages in narrow streets; it was a teenager’s dream. 
(Stop reading!)

(And when the light shines in, will it be golden or thin? 
a horseman, in the morning, out hunting-town, stop 
thinking

All things in time.
(Strandentwining sacraments, afloat when I was young -  
open and worlding, open sky - lungs and canopies, disconcealing heights)

And once, as advent did lie empty and exp[e/a]nsive - 
and before the omphalos could release us from its braid - 
in a parking-lot on the hillside, I felt the souls carabiner’d to me 
and knew I could earn all love, if I could bear the weight with grace - 
in the rubble, stop

walking - stop 
reading - stop 
smiling (stop smiling!) - stop 
thinking -

Two pale bodies glowing in the forest spill spit and 
text from mouth and artifice - 
dedication and a honeycrisp as if from seraphic bowls - 
salivate for New Jerusalem, John of Patmos! And 
bless that summer sky - too much, or not 
enough, bowed in surrender, I 
held your hand in summer. 

(Stop thinking!)

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from Torso, released April 28, 2023

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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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