Name: fire time
Duration: P00H03M29S
Description: Perhaps it is inspired by meeting folk heroes candie and guy carawan. i did some work on their house. guy was deep in dimentia and candie was deep in loving kindness. i was struck by the tenacity of a locust tree. i remember their home felt kind. we started over our conversations every minute or so while candie served lunch.

fire time

from Everything by Elam Blackman

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Perhaps it is inspired by meeting folk heroes candie and guy carawan. i did some work on their house. guy was deep in dimentia and candie was deep in loving kindness. i was struck by the tenacity of a locust tree. i remember their home felt kind. we started over our conversations every minute or so while candie served lunch.

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love is a strange bird
i am a strange tree
won't you light my limbs with fire?
slow start awkward wing
dewdrops on collard greens
won't you gaze into the blaze?
locust weaves into the fence
shooting out. thicket dense
won't you cut down it's years to none?
we are growing old and
it is no slight of hand
will the passing days be a worn out bench?
will we recognize the sign
that is our future time?
won't you go easy for me when you come?

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from Everything, track released June 6, 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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