Let bones rattle to the floor…
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Peel away the skin
Let bones rattle to the floor
To be gathered in loving arms
Brought to the fire
To cook, to char
Sending smoke signals
towards the stars
Let my charcoal feed the garden
Scatter the ash upon the wind
Wash clean the slate
to be born as blossoms
Rooted in last year’s death and decay
Let me be the soil
Married with sunshine
And wait…
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Written/recorded in the southern New Mexico desert