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The Garden

from Two Maple Keys by Maudlin Magpie

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lyrics

i awoke into dusk
twisted in bed sheets
clawed my way
from these misshapen memories
i looked out the window pane
she’s there in the garden
just after the rain
uprooting green from each cast spade
for hidden beneath the weeds await

and she calls up to me
says my darling don’t worry
but the lamplight casts specters
that dance through the yard

a solemn boy waits
along the edge of the river
searching his image
amongst the murk and the mire
and there on the surface a lady’s figure
with the soft features of his late sister
he tongues the reflection
like a lily on water
as they sink into one
and extinguish each other

so i wait until the night falls
to come out and see her
and she kisses my forehead
and coddles my hands
she says you mustn’t hold on dear
to these scalding embers
because the body remembers
until they bury you dead

a magpie stakes watch
along the stillborn horizon
mourning the day and gnawing the flesh
an old oak holds so tight to its acorns
while the scavengers sleep in fields aglow
so quiet they sleep

credits

from Two Maple Keys, released July 14, 2012
piano and vocals by katie gold
guitar and vocals by jason horodyski
glockenspiel by robin walker

written and recorded by jason horodyski
mastered by max davies
cover artwork by katherine rutter

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