Bombed Out (In Mysterious Kôr)

from Christmas Wishes by Silence and Secrecy

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The most blatantly noisy thing I have ever released. In 43-EDO, which is ordinarily a fairly familiar-sounding temperament, but familiar this is not.

The title is a nod to a particularly striking Elizabeth Bowen story; the lyric predates my having read it, however, inspired by the ash "shadows" of Hiroshima and assorted nightmare imagery.

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columns of smoke
spreading like toadstools
fairy rings
to the children of gods
silently rising
and spreading in a sandstorm
debris and detritus
clusters around
sifting as silt between my toes
and up to my ankles
sucking me in
and only shadows remain
if only to be there
to hold a moment
like a photograph
impending disaster
the camera is a life-raft
disappear beneath the waves
or stay
and disappear later
no impending disaster
only our images remain
before burning away
faces in firelight
chill as diverted veins
approaching slowly without
within textures
within features
shifting visage cracking
mirror-tains bleeding
and our masks burn away

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from Christmas Wishes, released August 12, 2017

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Purveyor of fine musical curios, grotesques and arabesques since 1 January 2014. Mostly just one weirdo in a literal attic.

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