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The Emperor's Note
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Mommy Crow
02:30
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Churchyard
03:48
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Don’t you want to meet him in the churchyard and lean against the wall with wilting flowers in your hair and all the anger in the air still on your clothes. Would you rather carve your name in pavement or be the lonely ampersand curled up into a ball and reaching out before you fall out of the sentence. Maybe they will chase you with a hatchet but will you hide again under that canopy of trees or will you listen to the leaves and bare your bones. Don’t you want to meet him in the churchyard and lean against the wall with wilting flowers in your hair and all the anger in the air still on your clothes.
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The Shade
05:24
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The camera sat in the doorway, beneath all the clouds in the hallway. The chemicals seeped through the bedspread. Your feathers they met as your wings met and drew back, when I ran to meet you. I had plans to see you. I brought tulips and stones. But think of the horses in cave lines, the spiders that creep down the wind chimes. Do you believe what they tell you, the wires that hang in your bedroom and sting you, like the mouths of dragons, where our songs were mourning between fire and bone. Do you make sketches of movement, like leaves scratching over a window. The shade is where we both are going.
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Go the Sun Down
01:13
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Water Tower
04:57
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Water tower, I will meet you right here where the wet’s encased in dry. Where the blood stays in the vein and tears stay in the eye. Where the spiders in the trees sit motionless and stare--they will breathe so silent we will hardly know they’re there. Water tower, I will meet you right here where the grass stands straight and still, where the demons in your bones are subject to your will, where the ghosts of heavy rain suspend from strings of sky. You will say the safest thing and keep your new suit dry. Lay down.
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When the mirrors all draw to a central point and gravity swallows the shapes in the glass, the white bird, in springtime, will find you. She will lead you down flowered paths. You may think you should float down a creek bed, that your heart will be safer in sand, but the white bird , in springtime, will find you. She will trap you and ruin your plans.
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Make a point, stab it through the bowels of reason, and hide the corpse in the bag you put the leaves in. The secrets change, they melt and freeze with changing seasons. The car is cold and you speak clumsily of reasons. But in the sun is where I want you, where it all began. The air is hard and I can tell you’re getting bolder. The air is harder, sky is larger and it's colder. The secrets change they melt and freeze with changing seasons, the air is hard and I am rotting in the leaf bin. The empty pages, piles of yellow pages, I will wear you out. The empty corners, cardboard box of war wounds, I will wear you out.
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Ladders and Mirrors
03:08
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Find the secret metric in the parlor, separate the ladders from the mirrors, carry out the fire with the water. (I've been running through buildings, hollowed out shells of factories.) Just around the corner there’s a shaking, out of breath equation, slumped along the wall and praying safety for where he has hidden. He carried out the fire with the water. But through the study door the telephone rang out, like a shaking voice it sang out and made me drop my toast, but the same cold hand that turned the globe tapped his message in a faint Morse code, and I walked out looking like a white ghost.
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Analysis of Variance
02:02
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How long must things be different before they are different. Like when the rising noises that sweep across the sidewalk turn into an unfamiliar sound, or the moment you lifted your pen from the shuddering cursive tangle of your first name and paused before setting it down on the page again. I woke up wondering about this and felt afraid, and I thought of the long tail of that wheezing distribution, stretching out its wispy arm into the future--some infinite knife slicing into the thick base of the next curve to arise: the green grassed hill where a person might finally lie down and remember nothing. But maybe it's good enough to form, with these clever hands of ours, such sculptured worlds--ink the boundaries of one from the other, and lie new categories into existence, and then climb, quietly and peacefully, upward under willow trees.
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e.p. hall Chicago, Illinois
e.p. hall is the dark folk brainchild of e.p., who constructs emotional haunted houses.
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