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Riversong (Memorial Potamology)

by A.S. Coomer

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Riversong (Memorial Potamology) will be included in SONGS FOR LEAVING (Gutter Snob Books) due out 11/25/22.
All 25 poems/songs will be released in paperback, ebook, and audio formats. The audio format will include instrumentation.

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As we lay low
Another of the gifted

A stray feather flutter-step dancing
Above the shifting snowpack

Drifts down to join the snowmelt
Another drop in the flow

Downstream, the dream everchanging
You’ll never wade out into the same river

No one ever does
Life a timelapse of the flood

We count the hours by the silt rings
Left on the sodden warping walls

With each tick a lessening
Recession gradual but never quite complete

Nature’s song swells
We bleed as we sing

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Those left behind
Met at the haunt

A flotilla of ghostships
Circling a single, tired mooring

We offered up our songs
Words swirling skyward in cloudsmoke

Raining down on brittle snowcrust
Easing towards a lessening

Erosion, sure, but welcome
Against choking alluvium

Our vice hardened hearts clotting
With detritus, mangled branches

& shorn shingles, mistakes & reckonings,
Otters, coots, and mallards displaced

Rain-soaked refugees wading
Through muck and debris

Seeking new, higher banks
Just like the rest of us

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There are those that take advantage
Use the roiling for dumping off

Tires and garbage, old appliances
& the lapped smooth stones of need

You can find them on the bridges
Shifty eyes scanning for witnesses

Dropping what is bald and useless
End over end ending in a splash wave

Lost in the tumultuous brown churning
The waters accept with indifference

Burying under or carrying along
Another abandoned verse of riversong

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released October 31, 2022
All sounds made by A.S. Coomer
All words by A.S. Coomer
Poem © A.S. Coomer 2022
Song © A.S. Coomer 2022

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A.S. Coomer Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Folk. Americana. Narratives. Ambient Instrumentals. Aubades. Nocturnes. Poetry. Rock & roll. Psychedelia. Alt- Country.

Five of my tunes were published by The Museum of Americana.

Rural Eminence Volumes One, Two, & Three are instrumental reflections of the rural life.

Songs for Leaving is a poetry/music fusion.

I've got tons of projects cooking.

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