Unraveling Days

from Murmurations by Scott Ezell

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Unraveling Days

I want you to come to me
I want you to come
I want you to come to me…I want you…

When I feel your skin
I don’t know where I’ve been
I don’t know why roads have been my home
all these wild horse trails

I want you to come to me
I want you to come
I want you to come to me… I want you…

Lips of memory and pearl
waves of salt and the moon move through you
my throat is always full of greed and love
I feel I might crack like an old machine
seized with dried up oil and rust
dust blows through me
words fall from me
words fall from me, like leaves
flow away…flow away
leaves in a stream…flow away

I’ve been traveling all my days
unraveling all my days
eating gravel all my days
swinging a gavel all my days
I’ve shattered all these days…all these days

Now we’re tangled together all our days
rain patterns all our days
homesick salmon all our days
panhandling the days
picking coins from fountain spray
spare change and malt liquor on San Francisco quays
mesmerized by manta rays
till my eyes begin to glaze
and my heart thumps out of phase
pitch curveballs to Willie Mays
throw out donuts eat the glaze
trace my heartbeats through a maze
fly paper airplanes through engine haze
bathe my mind with photon rays
act out a lifetime of one-man plays
eat TV dinners without the trays
drop the baton forfeit relays
let my hound lie where he lays
beg the po-leece not to taze
tell skyscrapers they’ll be razed
by jealous sidewalks who demand a raise
ride a donkey till it brays
eat fishbones discard fillets
hit on eighteen to chance a trey
win in hopscotch against a priest who prays
ring churchbells in the mouth of May
jump unguarded into the fray
keep on roaming…or learn to stay
with you

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from Murmurations, released March 20, 2017

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Scott Ezell

Scott Ezell is a Pacific Rim writer and multi-genre artist with a background in Asia, border zones, and indigenous peoples. His music spans folk, ambient, and experimental styles.

www.scottezell.com

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