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The Scythe

from Some Gift by Enablers

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lyrics

On a bike ride yesterday
I fought against a strong gust
— slow work of it--

more like a churning heavy-sea chop
--- hardly a buoy

but a cork the wind was speaking for: Cork!
Cork! Cork!
steering my wheels

into rubble and dog shit and the occasional passing car’s
path.

All at once I no longer needed the anecdotal; I didn’t need
sea analogies, either

just the steady annunciation
in my landlubber ears—

wind of the world, world of wind,
blowing us all round

yet failing to cleanse.
I saw the wind like a scythe

sweeping over us all from one pole to the other--
one sally of it in the sun, the return in a harvest moon

not striking
but ever ready to and soon

its blade and its darling, the wind
swinging and swinging again

to a mottled tune
of siren and finch.

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from Some Gift, released September 2, 2022

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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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