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Hunting stone and light

from Army Of Briars - 30CD (2007) by Army Of Briars

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lyrics

hunting stone and light

hunting stone and light
immobile
under shadow
as music
plays on stone
under smoky rainclouds

the washing slaps in a flood of wind
some suddenness
of sun and shadow
to focus the flickering
arterial
ray of birch

the buds
know only to attend
to fill with the big bang’s
unceasing star tide
to flood into leaf
into the tree’s dragon
into the lava-flow of spring
down the forest-side

keep silent
in the mystified green
the birds will speak bird to you
a great burden
to carry back to cities
and to sense

who remains in the flood of sun
but the sun’s vessel?

who can bear the terror and grace of the beech tree
but a falling seed?

armies come to the border sleeping
i cannot turn them aside

who will burn in their fires
but the wood’s submission?

the hall of the wood of the inner
eye
stays
a moment
its roof of green light constantly reforming

the song stands you there beneath it
the song remembers you unbroken

credits

from Army Of Briars - 30CD (2007), released February 1, 2021
Keith - words
Julie – voice
Tim – guitar
Martin – rhodes, synth, sopranino, alto and baritone saxes, laptop
Terry Todd – fretless bass guitar

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