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Starfields

from Bang Dust by Hovering Shrikes

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The falling leaves are starfields.
My car accelerates.
Your bed: a distant planet.
This highway: outer space.

Empty bottles in the backseat:
my shimmering comet tail.
It’s Saturn’s rings I collide
as I spark off the guardrail.

Window down.
The wind, now, is unforgiving cold.
It carries all of your perfumes.
The smell is new.
The particles are old --
Big Bang dust, I’m told.

Are you raising your antenna?
Are you waiting for the “Wow!”?
My whole voice is Doppler-shifting
as I radio it out.

Rear tires are rumbling dust up
like a rover on the moon
that has retired itself to looping
figure eights amongst the craters
and the dunes.

I once worshipped
the expansion of all things
toward their end.

I am now terrified
of being lapped by
wherever things begin
and never catching up to it,
forever snapping every stitch,
like pulling pins out of a hem
lubricated by death wish and gin,
until, collapsing, I give in
to only ever being this --
admit wholeness cannot exist
without you wrapped around my skin,
holding this lack of guts in.

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from Bang Dust, released April 9, 2021

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Lyric-driven post-punk from Portland.

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