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sugar canopy
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in its completion, we found solace
out of its corpse, we built a mirage
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trespasser
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to speak the things i did nearby
it would betray the purpose i did them by night
don't wonder; don't imagine
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fair comparison
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somewhere
there are two galaxy-traversing dolphins
in a constant state of courtship,
but never anything more
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what does your heart say?
why is it murmuring?
why is the ground screaming?
what does it want from me?
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the moon in color
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now I see you
now you see me
but you've always seen me
but not as I always saw you
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contemplation 64
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to pick at their fingers
or to not pick at their fingers
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fir
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in its fullness; in its glory
garbed by nature; blessed by the pain of the skies
nonetheless, we all fall eventually
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pluto in color
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even in her cave she circles
like a lost vulture she hovers
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a nuclear autumn
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run, keep running
stop, listen
run, don't stop again
listen, always running
don't stop, run
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paranoia
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always has
always will
which way is up?
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binocular sea captain
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a storm rages on
a mermaid loses her hearing
the tumultuous depths of the stew are confused
with the drunk rambling of the blind captain
the ship peels through dreams
and wishes to hear anything at all
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wooing tenacity
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as rehearsed and anticipated
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as in the barycenter
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"don't let go!"
the child begs
"don't let go!"
the parent cries
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median blur
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the golds, the blues
the surrogate hues
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cavity
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the fishing pole descended
without the man, the bait
into the depths of trickery and deceit
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thesaurus
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for once,
just give it to them honestly
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helicopter dream
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it lulls me back to a sleep
deeper than the sky
wider than the ocean
i follow it through ascension
through clouds: the foliage of the heavens
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olea
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the cosmic monarch counsels the moon
just the as the moon counsels the sea
and the sea counsels the galactic dolphins
the erosion of the olive tree: cantankerous
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incantational
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they screamed
"why would he do this?"
past the horizon a balloon turned left
they screamed as the sun fell
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deliverance
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in its peculiar state of fear
the wreckage upholds itself
everything must die
but not always by just anything
your deliverance will be purposeful
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about the honey
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its ebb and flow
its tides and waves
its charge on the land
its retreat from the shore
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the fisherman aesthetic
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in her net i'm captured
by her sails i'm navigated
through the snowstorm on the sea
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tidal calender
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deciding when
is like choosing how
the moon smiles
or frowns
or cries
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decision & purpose
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the galactic dolphins descend
upon the waking earth newly discovered
someone screams
"the end has come!"
the cosmic monarch yells
"salvation has begun"
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sea lights
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an incarnation of the hopeful
wandering through the timeless
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wreckage
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darker
darker
darker
darker
darker
until the farer is found
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maritime
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in his dreams he found a hall:
a library of nautical history
the drying sirens careened to his soul
and he became lost to the depths
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cabotage
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betwixt the ropes
inside the brass
before the forwarding of ripples
nothing comes back from the edge
some lives were never truly mapped
the stars were never asked
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buoy view
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"am i free?" the buoy asked
"free from finding purpose;
but bound to my command"
the tide replied sorrowfully
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maiden inland
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to her i return
after stargazing and
map drawing
to her embrace i return
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in consideration
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shattering through the city
pummeling out of the borders
it didn't happen, but it could've
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sigh of nature
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the trees wave at the passing stars
the little dipper exhales
mother nature inhales
the stars blindly pass by
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fear
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inability
how it stares me
in the eyes
all night long
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galactic rewind
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and away it spins
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apparitions
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the cold hand touched the shoulder
the eyes looked forward without sight
in terror mother nature spoke to the mortal
"i know not what lies ahead"
the mortal deaf and mute
could not tell her what was before them
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there it dwells contentedly
the amoeba
geraldine
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character
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the ghost that resides
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'oumuamua
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incoming
but from ourselves
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bandwidth 10
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was it delivered?
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bandwidth 160
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completely
and devastatingly
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ever doctrinal
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harolding chaos
escapisms
conclusions
catapulting her being astrologically
nuking his governing astronomically
upholding our caretaking
borrowing pillows
cradling dread
limps
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the task at hand
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and it tears through the air
like a falcon after its prey
the father leaves nothing for his heir
and now all it can do is pray
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bulb
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the machinery speaks
as though spoken to
the child sings
as if anyone listens
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you are what you see
you are what you hear
you are what you smell
you are what you feel
you are what you taste
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hyperaquatic stasis
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and the galaxy-traversing dolphins said their momentary farewells
"i'll see you in the next revolution, my lover" cries one
"i long for you in the next life, my universe" replies the other
and we are left following one
listening to its mournful wail
echo, ripple, tear, and cleave
through the galaxies like grass
as our world is devastated under
that life-taking force
we hear in our last breaths
what it sings to itself
"i'll treasure who you were to me before
and i will cherish what you are when we meet again
but i hate the version of you the most
when i am alone in life without you"
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Matthew Reeder Tacoma, Washington
drone ambient sound designer influenced by natural environments
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