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Lyrics from 'Thank You, Sleep' from Makings. 8" x 12" letter press print on heavy weight artist paper. Printed on an early 20th century press, by Eric Johnson of Iota Press.
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Lyrics from the song 'Winter' from Makings. 8" x 16" letter press print on heavy weight artist paper. Printed on an early 20th century press, by Eric Johnson of Iota Press.
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about
Based on unpublished writings by my grandmother, author/activist Tillie Olsen.
lyrics
The kaleidoscope, the twists and turns
The shapes and forms, reflected
The colors swirl, reveal, conceal
Memory’s mists are rising
What comes to the surface?
What remains, what never leaves?
What accidental wind blows the memory’s fragile seeds?
One blows to the rock, one blows into the sea
One finds deep and fertile earth, and grows into a tree
The breast less girl, forever young, under the Catalpa
The new ploughed fields, the black, stitched earth
I stretch my chest against it
The alleyways, the empty lots, the thunders in the night
The shirtwaists, and the clothes hanging dejected on the line
The moanings of the city dogs, the raven’s hacking caw
The smell of burning paper as we leave for Omaha
The Kansas coat, damp to the bone. Winter, 1930
Little one, the money’s gone. Hard times are coming
The nights I held them in my arms and gentled them to sleep
While songs of tangled searching twined through nerve and bone of me
The years move on, the ghosts awake, arise, and ask for life
The dusk is always falling and the evening always nigh
The dust is always restless and the wind is always high
credits
from Makings,
released June 29, 2014
Composed, performed, and recorded by Jesse Olsen Bay
Mixed by Carlos Arredondo and Jesse Olsen Bay
Mastered by Jonathan Burnside at A Secret Location
Western Massachusetts based composer and performer Jesse Olsen Bay creates aural landscapes and narratives to explore the depths of the human experience.
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