there is a voice inside of you
that whispers all day long:
“people are not hospitals and love cannot save you.
sick birds don’t like to be watched.”
YOU RUMINATE IN KNOTS OF LINKED LOOPS
“people are not hospitals and love cannot save you.
sick birds don’t like to be watched.”
talking in circles is not so much talking to ourselves,
but taking the subject and subjecting it
to our sense of separation.
how insubstantial the pageant of external reality
can be…
the light finally began to break through
the cracks in your all-too-closed mind
and you leapt up to breathe
onto cold windows
to make sure
there was something, anything
warm left inside you.
even in a place you know intimately
each night’s darkness is different.
just as the stomach cannot digest itself,
the mind is constructed
in such a way
that it cannot grasp itself.
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021