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The Hazelnut Tree

from MAGNIFICENT BIRD by Gabriel Kahane

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lyrics

The papers spell fresh threats of doom.
Squinting to read in the dark of the bedroom
I hear the breath of my child,
Ain’t love the thing that’s beguiled us
For ages, and still…

The pages of newsprint can fill
Me with what do you call that feeling—
Like spiders are crawling into your head?

Wake up tangled in the bed,
A dream, an explosion, the dead,
Survivors in black and blue and red.

Last night we three went outside,
Looked at the harvest moon, hollow
And high in the sky where the satellites beam
The faces of men to our neighbor’s TV screen—
It’s more information than I need.

Fold up the paper I’m done,
Glide through the front hall,
Open the door, see the sun
On the hazelnut tree:
That’s something I still believe.

credits

from MAGNIFICENT BIRD, released March 25, 2022
Gabriel Kahane - piano, vocals, synthesizers
Paul Kowert - double-bass
Pekka Kuusisto - violin

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