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Small Birds Flown
04:24
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Small Birds Flown - poem by Graham Kershaw
Household scents peel away:
lavender, garlic, tea and herbs,
bleach, hot cotton, lemon, yeast,
eucalypt, blood and bone.
Her brittle air finds no purchase
in my presence, curiosity dies
walking through the door. And yet
she is more beautiful than ever before.
She wears her clothes so loosely
I fear they will fall. I smell salt in her hair,
scent of some beach I’ll never quite reach,
a crystalline haze too faint to recall.
The nervous play of her fingers
at throat and fringe – they are gone,
small birds flown. All that is left
looks like happiness to me.
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2. |
Vermilion
02:53
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4. |
Mallee
05:23
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5. |
Icon - song 1
03:50
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Icon – song 1
Maria Zajkowski
At the altar of the imminent
I stopped below the sword
Is love pairing us adrift?
The statue on the cliff farewells
age and the valley into which we unravel
Relocating echoes at depth
I cut hearts free from sense
and tune the clocks of night
to the grasses of our final meadow
Choir of the strata
where bodies in earth
strike wooden letters
from wooden stars
A blossom rings on the days branch
above and as close as messages are
to their brief and beautiful passing
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6. |
Icon - song 2
06:45
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Icon - song 2
Maria Zajkowski
If the blackbird is singing
I know I am dying
correctly and in tune
It cries the light from its heart
The tide that devours itself
Throwing leaves to the sky
but the sky is gone
Your only wishes
are a different alone
Inside the Icon
the secret
Who is love and who is loved
I cut the grass and plant perfumes
around this perfection
with every other slave to freedom
Still not knowing
the certainties
I reach through the wall
Feel the wind
inside my life
Does this mean I have a meaning?
Or all this specific emptiness
The temple of the clock
The unfinished clouds
Our mutable wreck
The sea’s unreachable prayer
Night by night
at the gold fountain
I ask you again
what to forget
You wave so certain
where no thing is nothing
The rapture or the deluge
What comes first
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7. |
Oombulgarri
03:40
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8. |
Legacy
01:59
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9. |
Lovers Parting, Dawn
04:04
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Jen Lush Adelaide, Australia
Jen Lush is known for her spacious and emotive, starkly modern folk songs wrapped around expansive storytelling. From her 2017 album of poem-songs ‘The Night’s Insomnia,’ to her 2021 album ‘Let Loose the Beating Birds’ Jen and her stellar band have appeared at festivals and venues throughout South Australia, Victoria, NSW, WA and Tasmania. New album 'Hum of the mettle' is out now. ... more
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