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[reversed]
dying stars
the sun told not to split
pulled by a golden thread
the body a bent, aching tent for feelings
to dwell like a swirling aurora
you are the universe but
there's an ocean in the sky and it pounds against your skull
sentient blood
to hold as earth in place of flower
to bury self in self
sensitive veins
don't you know our days are numbered?
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existence with all and nothing
insect clouds and leaves browning
under reaches forth the sapling i
she can be my light
i could stretch the tide,
drown the waters and hide over shadows
be with all and nothing
distant, velveteen longing
under reaches forth the sapling i
strip me in your light
(cleanse my path in this frigid flare, suspended angel
caress my hair like rippling shimmer to the ocean
and float on to someone else
meet me in the quiet still, dark as the unknown
i will melt into your essence like dawn over the ground i stand
crowned by your halo, i hold all and nothing, seem to stay as you descend)
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atlantic
02:55
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you kissed me to the sky
i crossed in a low light inside the melting air imagining i knew how it felt there on the outside
you, the weighed down winter breeze were still my sun at the end of it all
carmine leaves fall with your crimson
was your summer dandelion girl, blooming into you, gave myself away
i was your chocolate girl, melting over, sweetening into
you, centipede, were on the leaves, but where should you have been?
where are your spirits? i could leave mine there, we could live together now
we were a fire with no shadow, dancing around ourselves into the night
i kept your words as an answer; i recycled mine to keep what’s left
could we have been seasons, gotten lost in each other’s forests?
there was a little girl somewhere ago; she is with you now
she was us and i named her after flowers
zinnia is anywhere now
rising past this hell; roses everywhere to you
sing your heart to your love, love away
sing away to your heart, love
sing your heart to your love
sing away to your love
away, sing, love
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unraveling
04:55
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you escape my words
i cross out my late summer evening fireflies
a poem twines itself about a ghost
we uncaged canaries
asylum me, you return
upending time, unending sky, suddenly fallen
ouroboros flora, sever vine
i long to bloom through me for once; alas, i am unraveling
i get lost in your nature
you turn the mind a cloud bursting over
if i could change, i’d let you
dream, let you love, let me serenade
around your sunlight body
inscribe your beauty, let me turn unraveling
i get lost in your cadence
the last of the final water that gently ravished
if i could change, i’d let my eyes take you breathless,
let the ocean of your voice become desiccated
let you dream, let you love, let me serenade
unraveling every so often parallels passion
carnelian weakens into carnation
i long to wear you as a crown of flowers and show you the sun
(i couldn’t be any louder, any quieter)
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crepuscule
03:32
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kiss the rain from my shoulders
the poison from my neck
the satin of my breast
and i’ll spill
crepuscule over us
bury myself in your dusk
my lips will melt on your perfect skin
tracing snowfeathers on mountains
i’m your earthquake
i’ll rest my hands in your hair
long for us as one
sit the air from your lungs
bite my mark until there’s blood
you are the starlit water; silhouette me
i drag your name across my tongue, let it kiss me,
stay in its chambers you call mine,
longingly
you are water; resurrect me
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lovely smoke
06:05
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you'll see me in the eclipse of your fear
like a specter of your adoration, you'll see me
all haunting afterlife aura
fallen rose lips and hair of a canopy
body as the curved ground you walk upon
in a glow of a candlelight's flame
(Suddenly, I can extinguish; small flames cower under my sharp breaths. Lovely smoke lingers through the room like thoughts of you, carrying the scent of a passion that no longer warms. The air is a night sky with translucent grey cirrus glowing by the smoldering light of these budding dreams, swirling with time. Do you feel my opaque kiss? Can you see me clear? Crimson as the blood that runs through you; red as the lips that love your skin; colored as the candle I light to be near when you can't, since you cower under my soft breaths to the point of anguish.)
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lily's reverie
10:27
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i am the initiated garden
where shall i lead you to see the beauty in me?
behind my lack of color from his cold, wintry and dark
yet i span the wavelengths
something has to keep alight
oh, how you were a mirror
oh, how i loved me through you
oh, how you loved me through your refractions
and how do i let go of this?
i am perennial; i am the seed
i am sunlight
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come out of the ether
there is space that needs to be taken
you are cryogenic in your survival; be warm,
be soft, be everything
you can be anything: anything is a broken cursive
you can relearn, turn into calligraphic eternity
you are in a womb of scars waiting, kicking, screaming; i will birth you
i decorate the hand that holds you capable
i decorate the bed you will sleep in
soon
you are lovers’ blossom on the sun-swing-set
the lazy river rain; sweet child,
like our foundation by fire and waves, this ends here (come into me) (i can see the light)
who am i to refuse?
something has to keep alive
it seems all we feel is love
and the death of it and c’est la vie
waste in the attersee
kintsukuroi psyche
i’ll still love in spite of
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sunshining
06:17
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drifting like a no-one in this tomb of trees
floating on the light wind, reflection of the sun
in its death phase, still shining
the orange cloud with its rose-colored skies
has flutter-by sight, becomes the cold
hiding behind its eyes is the sun
all diminished, still shining
my head is a hurricane of butterfly wings holding mercury
this migration weighs a ton
against the nightfall, rising
with the eastern sun, shining
i am celestial child; until walking,
i will learn to be steady crawling
like thorned ivies stretching through your mind garden
bathing in your spring sunshine
she said stay in the tempest of your mind, darling,
for you will bask in the sun
stay, darling
stay
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basil azuria Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
basil azuria (they/he) is a Black nonbinary/trans composer, producer, and songwriter. their music is enveloping, influenced
by ambient, classical, experimental, and electroacoustic musics, and revolves around themes related to discovery and exploration of the Black trans self.
slowly becoming kinda sure on what i'm doing
(ciali- "chay-lee")
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basil azuria recommends:
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if nzotake shange reincarnated in 2020 and made an album as a twentysomething about black femme life in the 20th + 21st centuries
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