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The storm of the century breaks
The highway disintegrates
Nothing we can do but wait
For the rain to abate
We drift along a forest lake
With all the cars that hydroplaned
And the bugs that could not escape
Laying eggs in the frames
What we’d give for a fire to dry our boots
A hearth to hang them up and set down roots

In the soft January light
Love is something more implied
Less a word you say outright
And leave out overnight
It surrounds you like the morning fog
Rolling off a melting pond
Where it flows between your skin and clothes
And you know, you just know
There won’t be time enough to heal all wounds
Nor fortune great enough to gild our bones
But the hum of our flesh is real
And all that is love is alive

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from Portents, released November 15, 2021

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Novus spero San Diego, California

Gospel of the final human century.
San Diego, CA / Hemet, CA / Flagstaff, AZ

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