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Portrait Of Frederik: story and voice by Gerard Rudolf

The first hot and nameless day of spring.
All afternoon he turns and tills the silent space,
snips-snips a decade's chaos from 14 apple trees,
furrows soil to lead astray the pending thought.

Now six o'clock, slumped in a dog-tired chair,
he studies his slog, sips blister-black Hungarian wine.
To the south, he heard, locusts ate entire territories to the root,
elsewhere it rained frogs, fires laid waste to farms, gardens.

Somewhere behind him his wife's pitter-patter in the house,
the nameless child inside her still only the size of a peach stone...
Yet, the garden must be ready, ready for The Arrival. Fleckless...
This garden will be their child's first full view of the world.

Now, eight o'clock, a giddy-laughter of wild geese
wades through the thick orange-skin dusk to the sea.
Soon night will close in around him like an eyelid
and he'll sleep the sleep of conquerors inside his red house.

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from Orphaned Lullabyes, released June 1, 2010

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