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The Painter

from Memorizing Capitals by Surface and Air

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"I'm a painter but not by day."
is not what she came to say
"I must confess I've overdressed
please don't walk away"

the ride home after the show
her head pressed to the bus window
her reflected stare with the city glare
whispers, "we're all alone"

up the stairs to her rented room
that she swears she's leaving soon
in the corner leans a canvas streaked
mostly with the deepest blue

she says "if today was just a number
trapped in a grid on the wall,
I'll build tomorrow slightly different
even if it falls"

in the closet near the back
she finds her box of photographs
and sorts them by what's still alive
and all that's not coming back

she lays down among the piles
now the echoes have grown tired
and drifts to sleep to distant beats
and the humming in the wires

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from Memorizing Capitals, track released July 7, 2015

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