I used to be scared of letting my blood settle, as if it could somehow rust and leave me a wreck robbed of thrust and tires. Now all I am asking for is some elbow room and health enough to keep on imagining.
Someone was making headlines cutting horses in the dark the summer you were born. I was chasing sites from a mirage map I had seen in a dream, driving in Cowichan patterns across the flats. While visions flared off of my windshield, I lit up in a smile.
Long before we came, long after we go, in the ghostly haze on the distance the buffalo roam and they never forget to remember the predictions made, five times over the land will rise and swallow itself.
Be assured, restitution comes to those who heed it, and all those reckless in love they will suffer, suffer the ultimate pain.
Tonight the trail homewards is a passage into a landless unknown.
I will journey through that thin, thin veil and roam the other worlds awaiting beyond key and clay.
Nobody’s Peach, from Seattle, serve up nine gorgeous songs informed by bluegrass and Americana, gentle as a fall breeze. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 24, 2020
The latest from Jim Lauderdale is exclusive to Bandcamp, its songs drawing on bluegrass, country, and classic American music. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 28, 2020