the complacency of light

from theater of trees by John R. Campbell

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Who knew the complacency of light?
It releases everything equally. It opens the body
to extremes, to willful insects and innocent wind.
So I expose my throat in praise of the trees. I allow
lyrically for the moment's demise, and I embrace
the bitterness that follows. It's the act of turning
that burns in the gut: turkey-vultures swerve,
and flap against a mottled sky. The local detail
is damned, and doomed to repeat its meandering.
The urge to describe overwhelms: the crackling
of bread as it toasts, or the log turning in the fire.
Each shape turning in three dimensions shifts.
Our bodies appear thin, and then translucent.
Soon they vanish altogether. Time barely
carries us over, like birds on updrafts in a cooling sky.
The centuries relax, each inch of filigree unwound,
and the ages fail to quite span the earth. So let it turn:
let the lyric rise slowly, and let the old correspondences
scatter. Later, among raptors and agile rocks, we'll
reconvene, we'll recombine, we'll reconsider the matter.

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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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