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Harp Unstrung

from Wild Dogs by Wandering Lake

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Inspired by the poem "For the Anniversary of My Death" by W.S. Merwin

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"Then I will no longer /
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
Surprised at the earth
And the love of one woman
And the shamelessness of men
As today writing after three days of rain
Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease"
-W.S. Merwin

In the droughted days that follow
When your question stalls the mind
I'd cut the strings from the harpists device
For a harp unstrung is but a frame for the thumb
As it dances its cultural slide

What's back there? What's hidden?
What leavings might you give?
A few flakes of gold fragments collected in the sieve
All the 49ers still are all waiting at the mill
Drinking 'neath the moonshine

I take a terrifying step 'cross benevolent shade
Without color or sound in any familiar way
Noise has never been othered nor severed before
As coil, either nylon nor gut

In the droughted days that follow
When your question stalls the mind
I'd cut the strings from the harpists device
For a harp unstrung is but a frame for the thumb
"As it bows not knowing to what"

credits

from Wild Dogs, track released March 15, 2020
written by Brian Kupillas & W.S. Merwin
produced, recorded & mixed by Conrad Burnham
single artwork designed by Jenni Kaye
photo by Kathryn Vetter-Miller

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