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animal cities

from theater of trees by John R. Campbell

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The epiphany in the woods has been driven to its limits,
like the bear who forages in the city dump. I wish
for autonomous landscapes, where the mountains stutter
themselves, where the creeks dotted with trout rush away.
I wish for landscapes to deny my flatness, deny
involvement in my schemes, even as I pry into every
crevice. Our cities keep producing: this is what
they were created to do. But the kelp in the tidal surge,
the grass colonizing the sand, the communities of winds
that import and export one another: these are cities, too.
Eradicate their contexts, and animals become bizarre:
finches peck, for blood, the seabirds called Boobies.
Pink dolphins fold their bodies in the Amazon, and
wildly-crested woodpeckers bang their skulls against trees.
But embrace their cities, and a new evening emerges:
we have rushes, and needles of sun. We have flies,
luckily, and one new moon. Men and women descend
from the trees, and game lights the plains. Here
in the fine city, our species shines with its own light too.
We forget the sun, the moon for a bit, just for the pleasure
of remembering them again.

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from theater of trees, released August 8, 2016

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John R. Campbell Corvallis, Oregon

John R. Campbell creates soundscapes via jazz, experimental, contemplative, spoken word, & alt roots textures. He's worked with
Trio Bravo triobravo.bandcamp.com
Blind Lions blindlions.bandcamp.com
Woodman/ Kellam/ Campbell woodmankellamcampbell.bandcamp.com
Avant Garage
avantgarage.bandcamp.com
& others. His blues persona, Green Man Blues, can be found at greenmanblues.bandcamp.com ... more

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