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Train and Owl
04:00
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Train and owl
Train
files across the sky
Crying out
as it flies
Night air
carries the call
the owl
devours it all
Train and owl.
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2. |
Sediment is Sentimental
03:49
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Sediment is Sentimental
Sed - i - ment is Sentimental
each layer time sets down
reminds me that it’s passed.
My doctor checks my heart
That creak/creek inside my chest
I don’t know where to start
Fits like a too small vest.
After a heavy rain
I step into the water
Searching for anything
Sediment, so sentimental
fine grains of present sense
remind me of the past.
I have to watch my step
In here snakes everywhere
What fun to walk in the woods, when
you have to take such care.
The water carries downstream
bits from the distant past
look there’s an ancient pot
Sediment, so sentimental.
The thought: who held it last?
Emotion for the past.
Sediment is Sentimental
each layer time sets down
reminds me that it’s passed.
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3. |
Turtle v. Otter
03:30
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I sing of memes and the bandwidth
streaming day and night those videos
a million bits of memory
fill my mind like silt and sand.
Each hedgehog, cat, and panda
cutely caught in a download
Distracts from understanding
What’s really living in our world
Those images make it seem like
animals are just a type of
harmless toy, sweet and pure,
just like me.
Each spring when turtle hatchlings
Pull themselves onto the sand
I see behind their tracks the prints of
otters like human hands.
Which creature, prey or hunter
is my kindred, mirrored in
the hi-res laptop screen, I wonder
If that’s all we’ve been.
We humans are so humane
animals in all but name
biting clawing,
scratching, drawing up
plans atop the food chain.
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4. |
Flood Plain
01:34
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Flood Plain
In a flood plain it doesn’t matter
until the waters build a ladder
to my home
I already signed the forms
because my house is in a zone
that raging floods bury
once a century
In a flood plain it doesn’t matter
until the waters take a jackhammer
to my home
For three days straight it rained and poured
Now the creek is at my door
As I float out to sea
i clutch my policy
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Train and owl
Train
files across the sky
Crying out
as it flies
Night air
carries the call
the owl
devours it all
Train and owl.
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7. |
Sediment demo
02:15
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Monumental Folly Atlanta, Georgia
Monumental Folly rather speaks for itself, yes? Monumental Folly also embraces a sheer willingness to leave things rough at the edges and to carry through improvisation from start to an often much-attenuated finish. Also singing, for which I apologize.
Monumental Folly recommends:
Halocline
by Frank Schultz / Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel
Continuing to find new ideas in a style all their own.
go to album
Joy Through Amplification
by Bill Nelson
"Joy" is a keyword for Bill Nelson's music-making.
go to album
New ideas through old jars.
go to albumIf you like Sediment/Sentimental, you may also like:
Darklife
by death's dynamic shroud
A dizzying, idea-packed journey into fractured maximalist pop from Death's Dynamic Shroud.
go to album
Topographic Relief Vol 6
by Various Artists
Warped, woozy vaporwave that builds suspense and unease with long, gauzy sheets of sound. Psychedelic and hypnotic.
go to album
Kristina Moore aka koleżanka's debut is a work of arty soft psych exploring the liminal spaces between urban centers and desert wonderlands.
go to album
