...nor Do They Spin (Patchwork)

from Parlour Magic by Reuben David Knights

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The power over direction
Was taken from you right at birth
Tried through religious attention
To hold all the pieces there
Sprung forth in frightening abundance
Faith formed in the corners of your guilt

Keep your fear hid behind your eyes

Conceived and born in an instant
Hope fell from the rafters and the void
Kept in the company of sailors
Closet in your aunts halfway house
A witness to your own misery a roadside companion

Keep your light on the fear and the face

Pulled from a patchwork of sisters
And mother hen's fussing about
Framed face, brought from the home land
Displayed on your nightstand
Somewhere out on an ocean
A mandolins playing for you

Keep your fear hid behind locked eyes

All this to say
All this to say

We gathered to write your name
Lower you down and sing
Lived such a fitting life to rest in a box of white
Stamps sending you away, dressed up for your big...

...day on the mountain one day I will be there too
When you see Him, wrapped in dawn, command the Son to rest His weary head, well done, He wept.

Cincinnati sent her sons
The garden state her only one
The traveler rose from his long rest
Free of care was headed west

Isiah is there, one that blew to bring down the walls is there
Blowing in bastion
I am there
40 years worth of desert wanders stare
Weary and parched and approaching the fountain as Moses is coming back down from his day on the mountain.

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from Parlour Magic, released October 11, 2020

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