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lyrics

Piece 1


today 
today
blue grey 
elephants
float 
through 
the canopy
that is sky
or perhaps 
they are 
puffs of smoke 
that hold 
the secret 
life of things
there is an art
to holding 
light and fluff-ily
please origami 
fold your joy
into a crane 
made 
of paper-wings
if love really 
is the essence
remaining after we’ve 
de-masked 
and turned
our bodies 
inside out
so we carried 
our flesh 
the other way
so too is love 
then a verb 
to hold 
light and fluff-ily
today
a cloud looked like 
someone’s buttocks
and legs 
and I laughed
that snorting kind of
laughter 
and despite
it all 
I felt that 
that line 
that line
that connects tippy toe
to belly button
belly button 
to crown
that makes the 
whole body feel good 
line
and this tasted
like part of the revolution
sweet sticky silly syrup


Piece 2

the isle of lovers
the isle of lovers
can be located in
the lakes carved
out of the ridges 
of two backs 
first
colliding
second
collapsing
and
third
climbing
into
one another
this valley
this valley
is a kind 
of paradise 


Piece 3

there are women folk who
are favoured 
now what I mean is
there are women folk
who can make
the sun blush/
whose spirits
can rise to
the surface
of skin/
can glow
maple
 and honey
cinnamon 
and guava /
there are women folk
who must have been created
on one of God’s 
really really good days/
when God must have
been in her laboratory 
at a cove on the coast
of paradise surrounded 
by waterfalls and
hot springs 
a parade
of birds 
and spice
infused tea leaves
platters of papayas
held inside the 
ring of a rainbow/
what I mean is 
there are women folk
who are chapels
who can take the breath
out of a room 
by the clusters of stars 
gathering to pray
in the alter of their retinas/
you see these women folk
are only for the purpose
of worship 
for only they hold 
the kind of reverence 
that make even the wind 
stop it’s course 
to courtesy
at the nape of their necks/
not because they 
are definitions of Gods
but because they are decent/
what I mean is 
there are women folk
who can drape the sky 
like a scarf around
the curves of their 
bodies/
whose cheekbones
are the shapes of
clouds blossoming
light and warm
like the last rays
of sun before
nightfall
or perhaps
more like
the peaks of 
mountains
made clear
after the rain
on these woman 
folks faces 
you cannot
wage war 
in fact they are quiet
hurricanes that
settle the battle 
within they
can calm demons
and put the devil to
bed 
these women folk are 
mostly made out 
of magic dust 

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from Closed Beginnings, released June 25, 2021

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With an emphasis on improvisation, the AAO explores the meeting points between disciplines and cultures, and imagines new musical forms to reflect the energy and diversity of 21st century Australia. The AAO explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, and between electronic and acoustic approaches. ... more

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