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Wolf Walker
04:06
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Struggling for purchase on the way up
Carved out a notch where we're laid up
It's alright to be nervous, don't look down while we careen
Rippling heat sheen
The wilderness has served us
Up to be unsung
Lonesome
Bobbing but oh so free
The jetsam is floating
The load is light enough
Now we can go
We went to bed with the light on
The earth turning its back to the sun
There's no need to be nervous
These dreams won't hurt us
Turn your chariot to a crowded sky of nothing
Enveloping
Bright morning comes for us every time
Chimes sing underneath
Warm memories of July
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Storm Critter
03:38
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Clear the way, part the waves
For the stump singer
In her wake, melodic taste
You'll feel fine
Trapped inside of this place
Like a storm critter
The sound she makes finds a place in my head
Pick a window seat on the bus
You can breathe on, draw a mouseketeer
Alley ways flurry past
Morse code, flashing through your stare
Sent the old, craggy ghost
Down to trembling knees
When it saw us floating through the icy breeze
Dipping birds, tasseled fur
Enchanted understory
She's walking out alone
Violin memories get colder
He's calling to atone
The vision folds
A dial tone
A steady drone
Dissolving
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Sprawled
04:02
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Push your feet
Hold them to an open fire
Wrap your toes walking down the wire
Slow the pace
Candle dripping fauna race
Until the light is found behind your face
I'll savor nights, old man sighs
A ream of paper sings me to sleep
Lifted up where the sun goes
And my toes hold to the wire
The scenery below is aglow
Quarried fields
Turning into towns and streets
Plush cushion soft robes
Slippered feet
Salted right
Cooked into a tender bite
Head against the window's golden light
I could have been out marveling
But I'm right here
Holding court with dust bunny royalty
And if I'm found sprawled out
Inverted on some pattern of tiles
Just don't discard all the cracked ones
A stack will make a pillar
Even if it won't last forever
We can plant some grass on the rooftop
The sycamore will hold us aloft
Lifted up to the sun
Where the scenery below is still aglow
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Stony Rill
03:21
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Waking up to bells
Smells of hot caramel
Hours away you'll just have to wait
Cards on the floor from the last game of war
Time's no contender in this place
Hiked through the snow
Through a frozen creek with tunnel vines
Pulled your sled until the sun escaped
Flipped down a hill into a stony rill
A rock hit your eye and cut so deep
Lightning struck down
Brought the oak bough to the ground
Power lines snapped
It all went black
Candle flicker lit the window with a jig
The fireplace roared on through the night
Silent this night
Christmas moves me to sing
Looking outside
A moonlit choir glows in the street
To the pitter-pat of your tiny feet
Eyelids roll back
To Venetian blind racetracks
Waking up slowly tastes so sweet
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Bits of Joy
04:45
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Wait until it shakes
The night awake
Empty slot on the shelf
Where a spine once told of my escape
Jars of past lives
Future delights
Bits of joy in unboxing ephemeral states
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Penny Marvel Columbia, Missouri
Penny Marvel is the solo/side project of Wil Reeves
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