Fevers, Maps

from The Breathing Bridge by Michael Bell

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There were those whose faces gleamed
Whose eyes shone black with unknown feelings
Who looked past us at things we couldn't see

They rose on scented smoke and departed
Carried on a sigh
In the owl's beak

It was these ones who went into the sea
Into the old parts of the world
Where a thousand years is the crack of a whip
And they danced there
Under the gaze of death that opened for them like a flower

They could not say how they had returned
They smiled at us from their fevers
Whispering in unknown languages
Like secret songs
Or Maps
Or Doors
Or like dark holes in the riverbank

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from The Breathing Bridge, released December 30, 2019

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Michael Bell Bellingham, Washington

A Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too.

Some of this is music for video games. The rest is a fairly raw document of my ongoing attempt to find something new among the blinking lights in my studio at home.

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