) Speak plainly: try again to
speak the line you’re thinking. Thoughts:
inflections off the tongue of the mind –
tinge of blue within a gossamer sky –
hand of Christ on one’s head –
arms pulling nets in –
( Believing not in Christ,
but in his serious hands,
transparent and empty
having no bones or blood,
whose implication held my shoulders tightly
if I could not feel Jesus gently.
And I believe not in coercion,
but in its serious hands
of which I am – but I am
becoming
as the body of Christ
meditating on high peaking suns;
I am head of sunflower;
the vision of John, a prosody;
an articulation of soul and destination;
the first seeing eye, the stiff arms unfolded;
the distance between bridges, flooded and joining;
the star within the sunrise, shining bare into existence;
can be as everything, trees now are trees becoming.
I am the red monk and the gray one; I set fires and put them out.
I am create dust from nothing. I am from dust to mountains raise.
) Thoughts:
Spring from silent corners of winter
credits
from Becoming,
released June 1, 2013
Synnett, Finkelman, Burkosky, Bassett, 2013.
Shout outs to CLUBGEAR and the dudes from Squad Massage for introducing this music into their video. If it wasn't for that video, I would have never found this band! L1monthetrack
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