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Interzones

by Eric Unger

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1.
Another War 03:19
In another world, tides away In another form, for the day Another war, in a tide away A war before, the light In another face, seek the eyes Do the centers swim, to the light? Another war, take all my gold A war before, the light Take all my gold, turn on my light Any fighting chance, any way Does the center hold, does it sway? Another war, a single wave A war before, the light Take all my gold, turn on my light Here in a bottle, like the ship that steers the air Wield one body, for to sail over one wave All the light swims all the day Light, we go back, to where we came from
2.
Heed the alcohol, remain Seed the fine liquid animating burn Fire the candle up to snuff Lesson turned, lessen the wrecking mirroring Reel the calm into the clay Hide the star behind an overcast efface Run afoul the twinkle light Put it out, into a pasture over arms Into a fadeout, fasten what’s been loosening Way out, wade into the lessening fire Instigate the burnout, burn out in the glistening Way out, out into the withering wild Dimly posting up at night Under bright electric atomizing light Particles of skin and bone Of a form, indistinct animated blur Fall awry the bricken bar Of a right angle, an overridden claim Every rider call an eye, fallen back, Into a nameless pedigree Into a fadeout, fasten what’s been loosening Way out, wade into the lessening fire Instigate the burnout, burn out in the glistening Way out, out into the withering wild To perform this dissolution right From a patterned wall, to the pasture light Way out moonlight bide this hand To erase a love, to contain this land Here while all the riders fall To all the fire, the walking bones While they move into the cold Away from all, the ride is gone Here and all the pasture light is thru All the wind and alcohol accrue, Refine, over eye, eye Feel the other hand apart, mirrored back Into the eye the face would hold Fallen thru the bitten dust, to the clay To any overridden name
3.
More than a fire in her eyes More than all the spirits in the skies Her soul is moving thru a station Carefully defied An instant white light Tell of it in stories thru the night A fine unknowing, dispossession Opening inside It is time, let it burn Let this soul begin to turn Thru the wiles and all the lace Thru this body and this face More than a light in the dark More than any incidental spark Her song is hidden deep inside her Solitary art To fail on display Open to the blinding, crowded day A wager to a different method bargain One to shade away It is time, let it burn Let this soul begin to turn Thru the dark and all the fear Thru the mist and thru the tear Here knows, a friend Unafraid, understood O to fail would be the best of medicines To stand apart from every glare and every blackened shroud A voice to cure the soundless blinkering (She knows, she knows, she knows) More than a fire in decline More than all the ashen colored light A thoughtless feeling entering in- To the breaking night And morning will come Sure as any story under thumb A tale unbounded in its telling By the teller’s tongue It is time, let it burn Let this soul begin to turn Thru the arc of what becomes What remains to her undone Here knows, a friend Unafraid, understood O to fail would be the best of medicines To stand apart from every glare and every blackened shroud A voice to cure the soundless blinkering (She knows, she knows, she knows)
4.
Scar 03:56
Far to go Far too long For to stay Build a road Thru the door Thru the floor Broken in the lightest shade to fall upon Broken thru the lightest touch to make a pine Peel On an own On a bone To alight Shown On a side Unallied Core exposed Fallen for the light of grain to let it glow Fallen for the split that makes it whole, oh Healing in the light of pain Oh if I ever heal again The break that would befall the night On all sides Fear the boy Wounded in An impale Brought To bear Fear in truth We’d avow Open to the dark of lies, the pretty sin Open to a drown in drops, a paper lid, oh Healing all the way to shore Over wide incremental tides Healing in the ways that time opens wide Sing Into All the fair weather All the rue Fear The man In a blighted tree line In a stand Ashen all the while the face the boy would own Grown thru phases, interchanges, interzones, oh Riven all the way to night Oh if a scar appears to rise Driven in the ways allied On a side
5.
Toes press, to stone tile To cold white, windowless side of the wall Climes, hold, idle mind, about The bristlecone pine Old pine, cone, dried To mind form, held in abeyance in wait For, light, rain, to point toward The glimmerglass soil Any finer way, to the core Ten times ten tries to To plumb for, home in a curtain of Glass door, forefinger, thumb To press, the caliper bow Any finer day Any room for the glow Any circle of rose Any side of the wall In a waking wind Steel to the wall inside Elemental find Heal for the war in time In a fated light-of-day Feel for the lay-in-wait In a fallen clime Any toe, any pine, any mind Toes press, to stone tile To cold white, windowless side of the wall Climes, hold, idle mind, about The bristlecone pine
6.
Chronologize 03:14
How the book got ripped I’ll save it for a time Movement to the ordered Shelf upon which I Chronologize Fading bindings tell Their own tale of a time Pages torn out leave Their matter mute in mind Chronologize All the words and colors in eye All the wordless colors and I arrange Feeling and mind Are the only guides I’ll align With a quiet god unallied inside Now the room goes white With moon rays and street light How the books and records Pattern I’ll divine Chronologize For a distance look Into the mirror’s back Books and records shimmer In their wieldy stack Chronologize All the books and records in eye All the feeling visualized and heard Pieces arrayed in a pattern held in display In a pattern I can’t relay to word And it makes my time all the rounder Inexpressible white in mind Color fill my eye in an own way Nothing touches my array
7.
Dizzy 02:49
Dizzy for the wave Cuts right up instead Steady where eye meets eye And opens wide Down aboard the planks Shorebirds all agleam Oh if I could I would Ennoble these Indignities Erase the blindfolds Over our eyes Falling for the wave Cuts right up the shore In a zig zag patterning That I walk on To meet the sun Light thru which we Hold our stare In the flat white of the painting In the jet black of your hair In the fading reasonings leading Up to our stand In the opening up of our eyes In the backlight and the glare In the space between our bodies hold Just enough air Flee for the wave Breathe for the air Look into my eyes They reflect the skies I look into your eyes I can see the skies
8.
Hail Wild Me 04:22
Hail wild me If I breathe Stay a while with me Let it be, let it be Face (face) wayward mile Brace (brace) for this while When the lights go down Cold winds rile In the tree Gray and wild field I careen, fallen leaf Fade (fade) into arms Braid (braid) tallgrass blades When the lights go down When the lights go down in full Hills in starlight overgrown Oh When the lights go down and up I would only fill this cup Oh And drink from whence I came And speak in wild my name And drink the words I speak And lose the path given me Hail failing light Leave the foundling wild If I breathe When I speak Turn to cut The weed in muck Ease (ease) into dark Breeze (breeze) stay with me When the lights go down
9.
Sing the Saw 04:46
In a photo all the writing creases fray In a fold to hold the old line In a fire all the breaking embers fly In a coal to hold the old time Heretofore, ring the rail Sing the saw, heretofore In a corner all the fighting waters still In a zone to enter light and late In a wire all the dim transmissions hide In a plastic coated copper braid Heretofore, ring the rail Sing the saw, heretofore I'm coming right back here again I won't leave until they let me in And if the sidewalk starts to break And if the windowpanes start to shake I'm going to ring the rail, right I'm going to sing the saw tonight, right I'm going to write you a letter I'm going to write you a song I'm going to do it far better I'm going to do it far gone One day I'll sit back and sigh Drink my water and close my eyes Thinking all the times were meant to be Every raging night and morning dream Every deep embrace and simple look Every hand assembled poem book Every song that's been forgotten now Sing the saw

credits

released February 15, 2018

All songs written by Eric Unger. Eric plays guitar, bass, Wurlitzer, piano, percussion, and sings. Stephanie Maieritsch plays electric guitar on “Another War,” “Pasture Over Arms,” “Bristlecone, Glimmerglass, Caliper Bow,” & “Hail Wild Me”; sings on “Hail Wild Me.” Emerald Catron plays drums on “Another War” & “Pasture Over Arms.” Louis Bardales plays piano on “Another War” & “Sing the Saw”; Rhodes on “Pasture Over Arms.” Jess McIntosh plays violin on “Bristlecone, Glimmerglass, Caliper Bow.” Robert Salazar plays drums on “Bristlecone, Glimmerglass, Caliper Bow,” “Hail Wild Me,” & “Sing the Saw.” Strings arranged and played by Geoff Dolce on “Sing the Saw.” Recorded and engineered by John Abbey at Kingsize Sound Labs, and Doug Malone at Jamdek Recording Studio. Mixed by John Abbey. Mastered by Shelly Steffens at Chicago Mastering Service. Cover photo by Dolly Avenue.
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