1. |
Grenades
01:04
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We fell in love
to the sound of bombs
falling (2x)
Grenades
Grenades
Grenades for hearts (2x)
We, we fell in love
to the sound of bombs
falling
We fell in love
to the sound of bombs
falling (2x)
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2. |
The Eclipse
01:59
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The Eclipse
the child who falls
head over heels
falls and
falls and
falls
*
When in love
it is as if the eclipse
is a concept, not a concrete
like death. It is a thought
ignored or a thought that remains
un-rendered in the innocent eye,
at least for a time.
For the young
there is no such thing as an eclipse
or an erosion of the connect
or the dissipation of a body
or the annihilation of an osculation.
When in love,
these things do not exist.
*
An obscured thing
hangs hollow above
those of us who have loved
and who are left.
It hangs, an echo
as though there is only
the vestige of a voice
in the arrested body.
As though
there has been a breach
of the once erect soul,
of the ancestral octave once evoked
during ceremonial séances every evening.
This thing, it shakes
shudders and stills
at least for a moment.
*
When in love,
there is only a solidifying design
of two edges
currently confirmed connected.
There are two separate wails that erupt;
suddenly caustic to the vintage veil
of an Always or a Forever.
There are two suspicious riots
that slam into an antidote
and they reverberate, arrogant,
as if these ruptures alone
were the first ever
in an eon.
As if these forms
could somehow fire-cloud
the sun itself with their evolutions.
As if the eclipse
were simply some noose
once wrapped around the Ageless
and not their tongues.
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3. |
Other Girl
01:23
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4. |
Ohm, Ohm
02:57
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5. |
Crash Molasses
01:31
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6. |
Collage of A Dying Sun
01:42
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7. |
The Stone Cutter's Wife
01:32
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8. |
Dear Sonya
02:31
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9. |
Titties
04:42
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10. |
Sidewalks
03:27
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11. |
The FreeRight
02:58
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12. |
With No River
04:31
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13. |
Don't Wanna Wait
01:21
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Faylita Hicks San Marcos, Texas
Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a black queer writer and the Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. A 2019 LAMBA Lit Fellow, she was a finalist in the 2018 PEN American Writing for Justice Fellowship, the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Annual Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry’s 2019 Spotlight Award. Her debut book, HoodWitch, is forthcoming October 2019 with Acre Books. ... more
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