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Two Things In One

from Felix Fuligin by Chase Garber

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the night dispersed and riven from its song
slides and hides with lidded lobes and remora
and suddenly leaking and pooling round me like a birth
my dream is leaving me unseen and unheard
from where it crouched like a cat fixing on a bird
like a black dragon saying "danger follows danger"

well, if I could have two things in one:
the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun

and landing lightly where I lay
a dragonfly changes shape
her wings folding closed into a case
the blue shimmer gone clean from her face
she says "wipe that sleep from your eyes, it's day!
you'll lose a third of your life that way!"

well, if I could have two things in one:
the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun

and to my perch, the brightening comes
to blight and blur the asterisms
my sleeping shade turned chromaticism

and like a ghost, I begin to veer
towards that shining frontier
advancing round the sphere
detaching the dark piece by piece
and sating the sun-eating seas
that wave in great lengths of green

so I'll come down and drink my fill
from the endless fire sloshed and spilled
but as I dip my ladle down
I see a slip of something on the ground
it's seeping slowly into my flesh
a shadow shrinking under duress
like a flattened flower reversing it's bloom
and taking refuge
in thin skin prone to tightening and cracks
it's liquid rising in generous stacks

while the blushing and the bone
is thrown in stark relief
mired knee deep

but just when night couldn't come too soon
the sun slips from high noon
to lengthen and weave the evening cloak
cooling my skin and climbing the slope
like a flood, like a word unsaid
the thing it named rising from the dead

well, if I could have two things in one:
the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun

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from Felix Fuligin, released April 3, 2018
includes a quote from the poem "moriturus" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Portland,OR based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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