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peckenpaugh2020-05-06 07:52 pm
tristfully) wrote in peckenpaugh2020-05-06 07:52 pm
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Evening...
'Cicadas at the End of Summer'
Whine as though a pine tree is bowing a broken violin,
As though a bandsaw cleaves a thousand thin sheets of
titanium;
They chime like freight wheels on a Norfolk Southern
slowing into town.
But all you ever see is the silence.
Husks, glued to the underside of maple leaves.
With their nineteen fifties Bakelite lines they'd do
just as well hanging from the ceiling of a space
museum —
What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallized memory;
The stubborn detail of, the shape around a life turned
The color of forgotten things: a cold broth of tea & milk
in the bottom of a mug.
Or skin on an old tin of varnish you have to lift with
lineman's pliers.
A fly paper that hung thirty years in Bird Cooper's pantry
in Brighton.
[.......]
Will someone please tell me the steps to unlocking the memory inside of a cicada shell? Succinctly.
Whine as though a pine tree is bowing a broken violin,
As though a bandsaw cleaves a thousand thin sheets of
titanium;
They chime like freight wheels on a Norfolk Southern
slowing into town.
But all you ever see is the silence.
Husks, glued to the underside of maple leaves.
With their nineteen fifties Bakelite lines they'd do
just as well hanging from the ceiling of a space
museum —
What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallized memory;
The stubborn detail of, the shape around a life turned
The color of forgotten things: a cold broth of tea & milk
in the bottom of a mug.
Or skin on an old tin of varnish you have to lift with
lineman's pliers.
A fly paper that hung thirty years in Bird Cooper's pantry
in Brighton.
Martin Walls
[.......]
Will someone please tell me the steps to unlocking the memory inside of a cicada shell? Succinctly.
no subject
Can't trust them. Not for anything.
no subject
You think their knowledge of their areas of expertise is compromised? Besides, are any of them possessed other than Treetops?
no subject
I don't care about their expertise. I just mean I wouldn't trust anyone that's compromised like this. [...] It's just Treetops so far. But that could change.