We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Radio Dues

from American Thicket by Eliot Cardinaux

/
  • American Thicket CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD come in a beautiful digipack designed by Espen Friberg, with photography by Michelle Arcila Opsvik. Includes one track not available through download.

    Includes unlimited streaming of American Thicket via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

lyrics

Seven summers,
bad luck in the ripples,
hairline returns…

If you had read my faults
in the book of breathing,
felt me teaching through my fall,
the water’s surface
would have so eluded you,
Narcissus…

I cannot follow footprints
that have all been washed away;
walk out, Narcissus
from the water’s edge –
these are your new eyes,
here your blues guitar,
dust has a way of scattering
upon the breeze.

And so our thoughts ascend the dizzying heights
that rise up out of deep primordial roots,
and rearing like great vultures, often we
pretend to stare, surrounded by a
lashing flood, our eyes agape, at cities
toppling at our apathetic feet.

In the silence you’ve made
nothing stirs but her bones
and the flame
in your heart
is a shadow;

and something perverse
and perversely cunning,
tugs at your heart,
and everything in you,
to claim that it is real.

The backdrop and the muffled shouts,
All scraping at sunlight,
In a muscle of determination…

He entered that city like spit.
Like so many asleep.
He was a punk called rose.
He used to pick the feathers off of chickens –
He would rub it in, O he would rub it in,
A scent into Oh-high-oh.
He was camouflaged by superstition
And drowned the rest of the time
By his own ammunition…

SIT DOWN. And reminisce.

O blackboard of roses
and cardboard of wasted years,
he was a punk called rose…

credits

from American Thicket, released July 8, 2016

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Eliot Cardinaux Amherst, Massachusetts

Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1984, Eliot Cardinaux is a poet and pianist now living in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the founder of The Bodily Press through which he has released the works of others, as well as several of his own chapbooks & CDs.

contact / help

Contact Eliot Cardinaux

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Eliot Cardinaux recommends:

If you like Eliot Cardinaux, you may also like: