All posts tagged: song

November 7

November 7, 2016
by C
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Lost in some forest north of the city, the driver returns the wedding guests home, some somewhat drunk, a song rises up, hoarse, flamenco– staccato clapping, the rutted road, headlights bathing the night fog in gold. There is no place to be now, the wedding guests are returning home, with newly-softened gazes, reminded again of love, the road turning in on itself, laughter, fake despair. The wedding over, the driver drives the wedding guests somewhere, […]

February 24

February 23, 2015
by C
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Could it mean something that today everyone was singing? the kid the chef the drunk man on the corner hands raised waiting to be raptured for an hour The chef had the words but not the tune arriving at work just as I was leaving the drunk had the voice but distance muffled his meaning the kid went I need you I need you more than anyone darling before rote memory gave out and red-faced […]