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Curtain’s Drawn
In earnest now, the audition starts
Reading from the end to render
The plot a ruse

Far removed from the leading parts
Cast the extra acts, reveal
The pomp and purview

I scored it for a thousand more
Guess we’ll overlap the scenes
To give it meaning

The curtains drawn, you’re on again
Ballasts twist your shadows spin
Around you

The cloak and veil your second skin
Raving eyes are peering in
They’ve found you

Placed your lines nose to tail
Memorized ‘for you can spell
They’ve bound you

Eye your marks, spots on the wall
Fledgling pirouettes fly up from
Dizzy falls

Through the scene and out the door
Perfect and en pointe you barely
Touched the floor

I scored it for one and no more
Guess we’ll overlap the scenes
To give it meaning

Abraded knees the worst you’ve known
The leaded net’s yet to be thrown
Around you

Your vision wise yet never seen
The bone exposed its naked gleam
Confounds you

Storyline is still too raw
Painting scenes you never saw
Astounds you

In earnest now the curtain falls
The trial’s run its course and rendered
The plot a ruse

Far removed from the leading parts
Scratch the extra acts reveal
The stark and virtue

I scored it for a thousand more
Guess we’ll overlap the scenes
To give it meaning

Curtains close you’re off again
Ballasts still your shadows spin
Around you

The cloak and veil your second skin
Raving eyes are peering in
They’ve found you

Placed your lines nose to tail
Memorized ‘fore you can spell
They’ve bound you

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from When the Gray is Turning, released May 7, 2018

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Part Eliott Smith, part L. Cohen, as run through the production wringer of Daniel Ash…Kattenbraker’s baritone voice is pleasant and soothing. The guitar work sweet and mellow and, might I add, deftly played… Portland’s Music Liberation Project

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