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Love's Labor's Unending

from Lookout by Scott Pinkmountain

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Love’s Labor’s Unending

“I will, I do,” she said.
The wind in the cottonwood trilled.
“This feeling is new,” she said.
I’m listening still.
Flickered a thought,
a pause she’d rather not show.
But I caught its meaning,
then I let it go. I let it go.

One step for you.
One step for me.
From such simple cotillion
such complexity.
Enough for a lifetime
or so it appears
some of our movements are clumsy
some of our movements are clear,
when the music is binding us near.

When I am the cloudcast and you the black ridgeline
harness my haze and scatter my weather,
and when you are the knife point, I’ll be the foaming sea,
the lines that you cut will soon vanish forever.

A moth over water mistakes its reflection
for a predator twin drawing close for the kill.
It forgoes its sharp thirst and follows its fear.
In the dry, lonely shadows it will perish, it will.
There’s also a death in the water
A sacrifice, I cannot deny.
All in its stead I dare offer
is that I will try.
I will try.

Love’s labor’s unending.
The wash flooded over last spring.
But that old river’s been bending.
Soon the silversmith’s hammer will ring, it will ring.
Give your breath to your neighbor’s name,
the whistle, the reed, and the funeral moan.
To their hands surrender your hands,
Your burdens no longer your own.
No, you are no longer alone.

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from Lookout, released February 11, 2014

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Scott Pinkmountain (aka Scott Rosenberg) is an American musician and a writer. Over the past 20 years, he has recorded and performed extensively in the U.S. and Europe with many excellent musicians including Anthony Braxton, Jacopo Andreini, Gino Robair, Sam Coomes, Arrington Di Dionyso, Phil Minton, Jaap Blonk, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Daisy, Nate Wooley, and others. ... more

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