Here Becomes There (feat. Oliver Knudsen)

Look around
Do you remember that this was once a home
Someone's home
Was it ours?
What was here before? geology remains - let's agree on that
Decaying brick, the atomization of what used to be a back yard
Concrete going to stone, frost cracked
Going to sand
It's histories collapsing
Random, to be sure, repurposed all the same
Your old skull a paving stone
Heart a flint ax, femur a harpoon, your fingers arrowheads
Shins become knives

But take your time, build your mountains
Remember, they die as they are born
Go and dive under that rolling eon, let it lift you

Inevitably storms will take you
Turn you into a few terabytes and loose change
We'll catalog the rest, grasp at reasons, guess at a function
A stick, a knife locked shut, bottles of clouded glass, a plastic bag full of
Disarticulated shells, cassette tapes, mostly erased
A box of ancient letters - not yours, memory passed down and without context
Yellowed stationary - a love letter from one shadow to another - names erased?
A bellyfull of desire redacted - still, it says 'i love you, i love you', and waits
Patient as a row of forgotten buildings, old gas stations, connivence
Stores, broken windows for eyes, doors long since kicked in
At the crest of a hill and set back from the interstate
In and out of your sight
Before you can tell them - it's been over for a long
Long time

Even in such a place,
You will fail to prove yourself
You will fail
And forget your shape
Your topology will shake
Will cry - your topology
Will punch through itself
You will take your ruins
And with them you will describe a cresting wave

We are coming in, fast
And without thought

How vast our cargo, our burden
Watch the new land being born

Here becomes there