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how long have you slept
with no warmth
no breath
a long gestation
that felt like death
you're animal heart
won't civilise yet
it will hunger until
you learn how to feed
how long were to left
in darkness
bereft
your own vexations
and unpaid depts
you're animal heart
won't civilise yet
it will hunger until
you learn how to feed
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Black Lake
03:21
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at night, to keep from fretting
I go to the lake in the dark
it's black surface mirrored and glistening
capturing a smear of starts
the way it took and embraced me
in stillness, like death
as deep and endless
as a last breath
this is how to be made invisible
when ripples still, and the echo fades
unbroken bodies of water
and all earthly weight forgot
this is how it embraced me
in stillness like death
ask deep and endless
as a last breath
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I saw you blush red and the clouds passed over
casting long shadows on your face
you, the mirror, of a planet's thousand sunsets
the blood moon
yes you winked slowly and the clouds passed over
hiding your face
you, the mirror, of a planet's thousand sunsets
the blood moon
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Setting Bones
01:25
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you'll give yourself a headache if you think to much
a little jerk, a little snap, to set things right
you'll think to much on how you could have misstepped
the grinding bones endured to keep on walking
sometimes the bones set incorrectly
a little jerk, a little snap, to set things right
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The Guest
02:12
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I was drawn into the circle
into the light and captured warmth
there I spoke words that did disturb you
out in the night the gathering wolves
I am the smoke and I am the air
I am the swirling clouds of snow
I am the ever unwanted guest
whispering fears and secrets I know
I was drawn into the circle
into the might and captured warmth
there I spoke words that did disturb you
out in the night the gathering wolves
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Hush
04:09
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you made the tent out of woven grass
into the brightest skies, their whitewashed eyes
bleeding into summer
the hush of brightness calls
you pulled the roots, in the evening
you plucked the fruits, in the evening
blossoms smelled their strongest
they wept sweet sap across your hands
the hush of darkness falls
when you touched them
you came so close
to the knowing
without knowing
how close you had come
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Obsidian Stairs
04:23
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you are not awake
you're still sleeping
take me down the obsidian stairs
until morning
in the labyrinth garden
with its liquid sun
to unravel veins
toward the heartbeat
deep in the green leaves
heavy and glistening
with the hum
you are not awake
you're still sleeping
take me down the obsidian stairs
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Tender
03:41
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you wandered out of your garden
not understanding why no flowers grew
that under leaf and mulch
sleeping things
lay sleeping still
they are waiting for you to tend them
and I tried to forget with force of will
how you thought it was your right to choose
which tree bore the sweetest fruit
as it they were all grown just for you
it's true that I carried your name once
in an open hand and watched as is grew
the plant you'd salvaged
has withered and died and dried
but I might have let it too
it was waiting to be tended
and I tried to forget with force of will
how you thought it was your right to choose
which tree bore the sweetest fruit
as it they were all grown just for you
you picked at things somebody had tended
as they were coming into blood
you broke what you fancied off at the tender stem
leaving for the tender
only things to mend
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Vampires
05:16
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the vampires can't hurt you
if you don't let them in
you wore your heart on the outside
easy for sucking dry
you left your keys on the table
and the door open wide
is beter to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all
but the vampires won't love you
if you don't let them in
when your body is a husk
and your veins have all run dry
there'll be no flesh to offer
not tears to cry
is beter to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all
but the vampires can't love you
if you don't let them in
whatever use is eternal love
if it cannot be shared or given
whatever use is eternal love
if it is only for the taking
the vampires can't hurt you
if you don't let them in
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Hermitess Calgary, Alberta
Hermitess is the project of an aging and slightly reclusive witch, dreaming simultaneously in music and images. Sonically, layered orchestral textures, harmonic voices, and pedal driven magic, all conjuring a fleeting fever dream.
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Mary is always working hard and doing something fascinating with her instrument, her list of collaborators is enviable and her output diverse
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I was on a train travelling to Seefeld in Austria and had nothing but the Alps to look over from the windows. This was a perfect compliment to the environment I was in
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