1. |
Rose Smog
02:15
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it seeps into every breath i take
strews its soot about my lungs
+ when i breathe its weight is all i can taste
+ when i speak its just air that comes out
//
i'm gently breathing out this rose smog
gently spooling out these skeins
that purl the edge of every sharp thing
+ wash away with rose rain
every mote of dust that's normal
everything that hurts
i drink in the blush-hued charnel mist
+ slowly turn inert
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2. |
Chamomile Hex
03:42
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pastel violence a hex upon you
who would see silent
those not like you
we'll keep casting spells until yr spirit breaks
we will light up every single place
that you've smothered we'll take it from you
you will nvr blow out this candle flame
//
we're in meadows binding up our hearts
twining them in burdock throwing sweetpea to the stars
we can see the rot you've sown drifting up the stream
we'll throw toadflax in yr dreams
//
chamomile + clover + lavender + vetiver
maelstrom round yr shrunken pityheart
+ yr crying
+ it waters our plants
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3. |
Deathswells
04:22
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a soft bruise / a swelling wound
a weed-growth / a glowing tomb
a swell of death / a deathly bloom
a life lived in a single room
a dim bulb light's pale hue
i know i've failed you
never-slept / nothing new
in my heart the deathswells grew
//
the embroidery's very nice
i wish to live inside the seams
until then i'll keep flickering
a light that barely gleams
a wisp of foam in the ebbing of the sea
//
i cannot say that i'm anything more
than a lavenderspore in an acrid smokewind
being blown away
smudged mascara on a rainy day
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4. |
Sullen // Sulk
03:49
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i know i'm a nightmare / i think so too
together we'll explore this darkness
we'll dig away at the walls until we reach crystal
so it won't become my tomb
//
i float up from the swirling depths
arms raised / whalesong in my ears
the sun dries my seawracked skin
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5. |
Soft Hands // Hard Hands
02:28
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yr soft hands in my hard hands
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miry seawater is foaming round my feet
a frost-caked parasol
a strange holiday indeed
i've brought my camera to this
graveyard of a beach
to try + show you that
there's more here than there seems
//
a melting ice-cream
a cup of murky tea
you need to drown yourself to become the sea
let its salt into yr skin seep
i've got a salt heart inside of me
//
i take a picture + all there is is white
i show you anyway say it must just be the light
i burn the picture say just walk into the sea
we walk in
a thousand ghosts beside us
we sink to the bottom of that
great grey ugly dream
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7. |
Bllurre
03:50
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a smudged wash of ocean grey
every day the same
if only i could be ok
a faded trace of a broken shape
a charcoal smear on an empty page
//
you make me less faint / less frail
through the bllurre you cut a vivid shape
in the dust you leave a human shape
//
a greyblack cloud being washed away
by corrosive rain
i know you kinda feel the same
but you somehow seem ok
yr really brave
a vivid wash of yellow paint
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8. |
Salt & Sorrow
03:26
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sea coast liminal
ebbing out / yr swimming
drenching yourself in it all
drenching yourself in the tangible
//
i'm figurative yr literal
or trying to be
you do it so much better than me
though i'm trying honestly
yr maximal i'm minimal
unfortunately
you were always more real than me
though i'm trying honestly
//
if i could work some spell to make me better i would
//
i'm malleable yr concrete
mostly
you were always more solid than me
i'm trying to be honestly
//
i promise you
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