Februaries

from Tundra by Enablers

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Five p.m. and the ice cracks, settling.
I clip the lights, brush the felts,
fill the sinks and re-tie my boots. Not a soul in here.

What happens is you get stuck in a slender photo album,
cut out of frame and spectrum but cradling
a large white poodle after one too many bourbons,
your focus a serial undertaking with vexing aerial points.
Quote: Never meant to be.

By 5:30 it’s a coffee and a cigarette, traffic soughing by
in a light but ceaseless rain.
To the west house lights bristle through a gathering mist
on the hill, and a junky appears at my side.
Plucking butts from the ashcan, he asks me
if I might have a rubber band to spare.
When I come back he holds the door ajar,
listening to Bukka White sing “Jesus Died on the Cross to Save the World.”
Could he come in?
I need every excuse to be alone, and humbly
shut the door.

My eyes
are my worst defenses,
gouged by the seeing of things as they are and must be.
There is no dim or kept light that dresses pity. Time does away.
It strips and bares, wracks desire, until the older body comes out cleansed.
Naturally, I take the blame. City lights and what transpired under them:
the holding of hands, the strokes of thighs--- all
the gradual displays that lead to sex
and home--- these were in motion, winding about me.

Even the smallest beads of rain took in entire motives.

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from Tundra, released September 1, 2008

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Enablers

Band Members: Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant). ... more

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