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This Light Skin of Earth

from This Light Skin of Earth by Jonathan Harms

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Those words I heard last night
They caught up to me
Bawling my eyes out
In a crowded cafe on Front Street

Woodcut of a balding monk
Kneeling before a barebreasted queen
The roots of her hair, softly
I follow back to source
And I find something

Science is as science does
Patiently watching round the bend
Subtle forces mark their trails
Smoothing the stone they tend

Cousin sentry branches out
Eyeless, the witness stands her post
All the universe displayed
Mundane details catch the light
In the eyes of the ghost

And we lay on this light skin of Earth
While miles below, the great heart churns
And we stare out transfixed by the void
Our womb and grave, at once now joined
And I cry with the heart of a boy
But the joy

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from This Light Skin of Earth, released July 17, 2017
Recorded at Beet Stew, July 2017
All instruments Jonathan Harms, except
Drums, CJ Alt

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Jonathan Harms Minneapolis, Minnesota

Guitarist/tinkerer based out of Minneapolis

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