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Gunpowder and Ladybirds

from Dust and the Bloom by Steven Kattenbraker

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Perhaps the home fire is long last over stoked

From miles away there’s no mistaking the sting of the smoke



“Fly away home,” the children sing

But the melody betrays the burn it brings



The gunpowder rings the stiff-necked kings to their knees

The house of lords reduced to stones in the charcoal of trees



I’m not breathing hard

Just clearing space

For the smoke and luck to take their place



Born of the blaze, she works alone

Her loom is warped and shedding

The glowing weft she’s treading



Thread from the flames, her burning home

She’s spinning golden laces

To affix the eyes to faces

Fly away home



The recusants amass as one in the fields

The sun is gone and the harvest long

Has born its yield



The torch is on its way

To clear the land, prepare for a new day.



To linger is to combust in colloquy

To run is to resign your own sovereignty



Fly away home the children sing

But the melody betrays the burn it brings



Born of the blaze, she works alone

Her home a glow of embers

The sacrosanct the splendor



Affixed to the shell

The coals are sewn

Black globes of joy and sorrow

On the blood oath of tomorrow

Fly away home.

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from Dust and the Bloom, released May 3, 2019

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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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