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.

Spontaneous Rune

from SISU POWDER the MOON by Gabriel Tavares

/

about

This poem appears only on digital download.

lyrics

Spontaneous Rune

split-second-reflex memory made instinct: I
snapped
like the crack of
a short leather whip
in hand and dropped
before becoming
consciously aware of
what it was I held.

I remember my grandfather too
did this in the pasture
one evening
when I was
a child looking down
at the lifeless, broken-necked snake
whose body makes
a letter shape now
on the ground,
a spontaneous Finnish rune.

I somehow sense its
death note spells: ichhhhhh?
and tossing the limp corps to Willow Creek,
its funeral myth slips too.
Do not take pity. No, don't take.
It will glide on the current
to Cayuga's gentle waves
to fly straight like an arrow
in the graceful long neck
of an old, old Canadian goose.

credits

from SISU POWDER the MOON, released October 29, 2015

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Gabriel Tavares Ithaca, New York

Thank you for coming to explore. Here you will find a new Sisu Powder the Moon record with 2 bonus tracks plus a diverse discography ranging from polished studio records like "Cipher" to an intimate Lo-Fi EP called "Sisu for You," a LIVE record made at the historic CBGBs 313 Gallery and a power trio called The THiNS recorded to 16-track analog. Happy Listening and I hope to see you at a show. ... more

contact / help

Contact Gabriel Tavares

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Gabriel Tavares, you may also like: