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14th Avenue: story and voice by Gerard Rudolf



Time takes the heart of every thing. It has nothing to do

with you or the place. There is just the overness of it.

Every thing is still there. Yet nothing is left.



....

It is the same house in the same yard in the same street.

It is the same window. It is the same stream.

Yet the water in it is different water. That is all.



....

So, you saunter down the unsame street, past the changed stream,

towards the house where the overness of every thing sits and waits

in patient chairs, on restless beds, inside a cold kitchen



....

with cupboards vacant as caves and a saltshaker filled with nothing

but thirst. In every photo they still pose: Stiff-backed-bug-eyed,

cramped inside collars and bodices, confined



....

to frames: Men's men, ashy women, offspring in sailor suits.

No names. Your blood is their blood. Their marrow inside your bones.

Box-Brownie-stares seem to expect a real birdie to fly at them



....

in that blinding blaze between the whip of a shutter and the flutter

of eyelids. Beyond the window: the garden of good and milk, the land of evil

and honey where days still break as they always have: Blood-orange red



....

behind bulky trees, black branches bending under wet weight

of unplucked fruits, rot slowly eating at the roots.

Yes, that unsame house under unchanged stars where

....

the sash window is the guillotine in your childhood dreams, where

numberless versions of you have stood in many shoe sizes, where

time broke in and took your heart and replaced it.

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from Orphaned Lullabyes, released June 1, 2010

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