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2by2

from Everything by Elam Blackman

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I’ll wait. dear young one
beneath dark branches
in doom… there
in our bleak language

in light in the garden
where the flowers boil
metals send signals
to other worlds. 2 by 2

olives for noah
arc in the ocean
flooded out of eden
takes a fable to know one

i drank wonder
while i waited for
a life boat to come
but i was washed to shore. 2 by 2

guided by rain
tried to swim the gulf in vain
make clean make heat
inner circle of her name

ask round. i joked
no one laughed
a dozen truths or so
licked the lighted path. 2 by 2

often i dream
i turn the woven door
couldn’t stop the wind
haunted by a glimpse yours

a kindred spirit dying
a pest but he was good
indian beeds in azure
dark in blood in dark blood. 2 by 2

in many eyes i seen you
leaving ripples in the stream
of unseen fortune
duty hounding me

vanished in the grass
the heel sticks to his script
and beckons you to take
but having isn’t hip. 2 by 2

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from Everything, released December 26, 2019

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Elam Blackman Vallejo, California

Elam Blackman was born in the front yard. Red dirt roads. A cottonwood. His parents were/ may still be hippies. Some days nothing happens. Elam writes songs. Elam talks in the third person for bios. Do you like bios? Elam is shy at times and when he gets to know you he might tell a joke or two. For less bio and more music stop by on the world wide web of the internet. ... more

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