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I Was Born, Then Burnt

from Redshift by Blake Ewing

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up here, everything looks so small.

it is very quiet. darkness is a silent lover
on the bloodless body of darkness.
waves of static ripple across
a sea of humming ink.

i, a caesura,
wading in the unsayable,
a cup of tears,
spilled across stillness.

the sun glistens like a wound
on the throat of a thousand rivers,
splitting and connecting
our many-tongued home.

somewhere, down there,
a muskmelon cracks open
like a ripened sun, its flesh
white as scooped-open stars.

a mother scrapes through
its soft curtain of sweetness
& pours its gold swirl
into her child’s mouth.

who am i to say
that none of this matters,
in a hush large enough
to swallow us whole.

all i know is that once,
i was hungry, & there were hands
that fed me. i was winter,
& the bark of my spine
burst to blossom.

none of it solid. all of it warmth.

i was born, then burnt.
inhale, & exhale.

& all the beautiful nothing in between.

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from Redshift, released November 4, 2022
Written, Performed, and Mixed by Blake Ewing
Poem by Esther Ra
Narration by Stefan Michalak

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