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The Waker Dreams

from The Waker Dreams by Gutter Sparrow

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river that runs under the sea
finds the warm air in the spring of a dream

when I awake, what do I glean
and what to discard from all that I’ve seen

a mountain of shards, a sliver within
memory’s bard sings a diamond hymn

current of kith, cool river deep
eddying kin in the shallows of sleep

I see them mining the coal, digging the clay,
skimming the oil, sifting the waste,
loading the boxcar, mending the tire,
laying the steel bar, tending the fire.

The messenger comes down, I wrestle his might:
my power is bested, but given the sight.
I am a strange son -- the future a changed one.

slowly motion falling eyes
with the darkness by your side
there is nothing left to hide
ladder linking earth and sky
there’ll be plenty to be found
when the night comes back around

The shelves upon your secret heart have hidden tomes away,
censured by the inquisition of the necessary day.
How many are given to quotidian in gray?
And so these celluloid transparencies
in color on your mind are overlaid.

The confetti of the living fills the air of the parade.
You find that time is not a line
but a collapsing ring of hopes, and shades, and fates
where we have all come to be seen
and for to see
the waker dreams.

slowly motion falling eyes
there is nothing left to hide
with the darkness by your side
ladder linking land and sky
there’ll be plenty to be found
when the light comes
when the night comes
back around

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from The Waker Dreams, released October 25, 2019

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Gutter Sparrow Brooklyn, New York

Gutter Sparrow is the solo music of John Mosloskie, who wrote and sang for Holler Wild Rose. He also has had the pleasure of touring/recording with Ian McGlynn, Ben+Vesper, Aradhna, The Loom, Jesse Marchant, Heather Woods Broderick and The Building.

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