What am I but soft to you --
the darkness that you're swimming through,
where lay in wait brined fingers of the damned --
or smoke that blows along a long lost land?
Am I not the moonlight knife,
freak-dancing in the moonlife night,
carved from sparks and hard as I am light,
whose subtlety discourages those who seek to describe
the way I interact with those
who lack the social graces
I'm completely and openly absent of,
but who do know
the shapes so briefly taken by my love?
Breathe in and learn to live without
the now-deep damage of the doubt
awoken in you by the way I sleep:
hissing holy kisses
to the women in my dreams.
Michelle Stodart’s folk music captures hope in melancholy, addressing the transformational aspects of the most challenging times. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2023
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