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On the road again and dreaming of the cellar at Oak St.
All the heavyweights are there
quaffing highballs out of chipping tumblers,
maudlin as mangled silverware,
barefoot ancestors milling round that monstrous furnace,
everyone of them an angel or a clown.
Everyone of them has maimed his feet on shards of broken glass;
not one among them dares look down.

Crossed the flats after Salt Lake,
hypnotized by the road last night.
A frigid hotel room near Bonneville,
sleeping in the shallows of the chase lights.
Polycarbonate crescent moon
gamboling across the state line
awake before the sun,
cold breakfast on the run,
goodbye—

Flee to the hills, don’t turn around
trust the charisma of the mountain:
Pilot peak, biting the dawn,
screams You’re wider than a wound,
more than a monument,
and loftier than a pillar of salt.

but I stole a glance—you can still see the track
where death came nipping at the Donner party’s back
and I just don’t know—I feel so exposed
like the pulpit’s open to me
but the book is closed.

Lightning flash from the interior,
intestines tangled in a rage,
Jack-in-the-box hoodoos on the canyon walls,
migraines coiled in the sage.
It was so achingly quiet
when I ran out of gas at sundown
that my heart began to weep
and the future fell asleep
for now.

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from Ventifacts, released September 22, 2021

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Ventifacts Brattleboro, Vermont

Ventifacts is a microtonal songwriting duo comprised of Ben Spees (of The Mercury Tree) and Damon Waitkus (of Jack O' The Clock). This bicoastal collaboration has been developing since late 2019, and released a full-length album in September 2021.

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