theater of trees

from theater of trees by John R. Campbell

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Artifice can be fecund, too,
swarming with more than mere curves,
creating an air that accommodates death:
gingerbread rotting in the eaves,
and gargoyles eroding to simple stone.
Silk is spun directly from the worm.
Wine is attained through the vines' intercession
with a god. I've no more cares:
I sit with my boxes in my theater of trees.
I'm free to contrive a jig, to interpret the lights
on the radio-towers over distant cities.
This meaninglessness pleases—traces,
afterimages, rosy dawns—for what can linger
on this earth but shadows? In the inhabitations
where the sun is blotted, walking nights
engulf the grass. Wand-like nothings
sway between the blades. Happenstance
thrives in the whorled leaves,
in the stances and the puns. Our
nonexistent god loves us 'til exhaustion,
for our illusionary wonder, our lack of credence,
and our beatific postures
like hills of clay.

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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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