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What Gloom

by Joseph Beatty

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What Gloom

The oilman sleeps with one eye in the East
The pumpjacks are bowing. They're praying to him.
But my covenant crumbles in your muddy palm.
How many words mean in the dawn?

The wind-rise day, would we battle or fawn?
Your shame is the field for their game and their born.
But I've tasted the gold. Spit it back bent and cold.
Your lonely old skies, how they rolled.

I sleep in your web now. I wake for your words.
I crumble for storms where your prairie unfolds.
When the purple dusk hangs and her doors are swung wide
I look at death, know his face, hear his tide.

Your blue-bullet dreams and your feathery woe.
The harvesting moon and her wandering glow
When we fell to our knees at this side of the road,
In lost boats on dark water, we followed.

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released September 23, 2015
Joseph Beatty-Vocals, Guitars
Darin Coelho Spring-bass, piano

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