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Otolith

by Yellow Hammer

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1.
Otolith 02:44
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Harpoon head, toggle and claw Whalebone corset and scrimshaw Baleen plate, peel and pith Whalebone ear, an otolith Human brain turned to glass An hourglass shape, a mountain pass Hail and snow, pyroclastic flows Pummice and ash and supervolcano magma Flukes and junk, monkey lips Trilobite fossils, factory ships Zombie worms and basket stars await in the deep Rattails and hagfish in dark dreams that don´t sleep Two thirds of the earth, for what it´s worth The endless sea, ends with a word, a final frontier Two thirds of the earth, to steal, to commandeer The endless sea ends with a word Disappear
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Jack of all trades 02:51
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Jack of all trades, master of none Heir of the earth´s riches, favourite son Jack of all trades, master of none A hard day´s work, no it´s never done Do what they won´t, do what you will Call it a talent, call it a skill Do what they can´t, do what you can A fair exchange, a trade for a man Jack of all trades, master of none Heir of the earth´s riches, favourite son Jack of all trades, master of none Heir of the earth´s riches, favourite son Even for Jack, the odds they are stacked Climb that steeple that people know is cracked Damned if you don´t, damned if you do A bone to pick with a skeleton crew Stories are short, tales are tall Passing the buck, dropping the ball Pick up the slack, cover your tracks Head for the hills and don´t look back Jack of all trades, master of none Heir of the earth´s riches, favourite son Jack of all trades, master of none Heir of the earth´s riches, favourite son
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Anemone 03:04
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Anemone, I swim, I see An ocean mirror, reflections of me In silvered glass, meadows of lush eel grass Nautilus spiralling lugworm casts The restless sea, with one foot in the door A memory of tidepools, nothing more Brain freeze, a melting icecream cone Periwinkle shells and cuttlebones Fisherman, fingerling, fry Thunderheads heaped up on high Cormorant wings out to dry Storm petrel eyes Cumulonimbus skies
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Golden sun 04:36
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So in time it came to pass The sun was a magnifying glass Setting fire to the grass In the name of golden sun In the name of golden sun In the name of golden sun Oh Golden Sun, Golden Sun Oh where in the world have you gone Oh Golden Sun, Golden Sun The stinging tail, the buzzing doom The open coffin in the living room Flowering youth, hammer and cock Dandelion your blossom is a clock Wipe those numbers off your face It´s time to press delete and erase
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Neanderthal mind 03:09
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Where is the bounding pulse, where are the arteries Where are the spasms or the weakness of the knees Where´s the circulation in the moon´s little white lie Cold dead planet in a cold and dying sky Staring down the darkness dimly, phosphorescent light Bioluminescence, foxfire and sight Fireflies and glowworms, fine monstrosities Echolocating me Dead language, dead wood A forest disenchanted and misunderstood The universe is young enough and happily oblivious to us Upon a dazzling carpet ride I rise to meet the day A giant reflector where the dust from mountains lay Prostrate and substrate funnel through my fingers run Timeless time by the countless billion ton The rays of the sun strike the surface of the waves At oblique angles like the cavemen in their caves Prism of refraction of the most dispersive kind My neanderthal mind Dead language, dead wood A forest disenchanted and misunderstood The universe is young enough, and happily oblivious to us
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Samarra, Sahara 03:23
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Burls and cankers on silver birch trees Swelling tumours on my brain Interlocking chaotic patterns Twisting, dancing a wild grain I am warping, I´m deforming Heavy heartwood sapwood and mud I´m malignant, I´m a cancer Imperfections my dormant buds I radiate and scatter, dissipate and drool Rooting the soil with cysts and nodules Ink inside oak apples, honeylocust galls From the glade clearing to the tree fall I am cutting through the forest Like a chainsaw through the air Overstated, sharp serrated Teeth like trumpets that blast and blare I listen to the branches snapping like a snare Tapping out morse, incantations and prayers I listen to the morning, breaking like a spell Founding, casting, and tuning a bell Samarra, Sahara, spinning Jenny A wingnut, a whirlybird, a catkin for tea

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released February 14, 2021

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