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The Pool

from Utburd by Michael Bell

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Beyond the house is a meadow. Beyond the meadow is a wood. Through the wood runs a path. Where the path ends is a pool, and at the pool I watch, and at the pool I listen. I see the moon course through the branches above me, waxing and waning. I hear the owls ask their questions of the forest, and I hear the frightened answers of the rabbits below them. I watch the bare twigs swell green and then wither. I see the mice poke out of their holes, and the perfect white skeletons the owls make of them. Occasionally, I too become hungry.

That evening was soft and warm. The grass in the meadow was not yet yellow, and the berries in the shade were full and black. An evening for playing out late, parents content and secure with their cups, listening to their children laughing on the hill, out of sight, yes, but safe, certainly safe.

I called to them from my pool. What is that bird, they said, and I sang the sweeter, and put into their minds a flash of colorful feathers low among the apples, great rich yellow apples, sweet as fresh pies in their little hands, and I sent them a little curling scent, like an early morning bakery, and another, like the tang of cider on a hot afternoon. And then they saw the bird at the path, there it is! And laughing they follow the path through the wood, the path to the pool. They do not see the trees close behind them, and they aren’t afraid.

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from Utburd, released October 29, 2023

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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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