spectacular absence of flowers

from Waiting For The Months When Wildflowers Grow From My Head by Zavis Kalandra

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The first two stanzas acknowledge credit as follows:

Line 1: Thomas Parkinson, “Death as experience”
Line 2: Juan Felipe Herrera, “Margarita walks the fields in Fresno
Line 3: Juan Felipe Herrera, “On the other side of Puccini’s”
Line 4: Greg Williamson, “XXI. Holiday mall with long fence”
Line 6: Thomas Parkinson, “Soliloquies for the dead”
Line 7: Connie Voisine, “Anonymous lyric”
Line 8: Greg Williamson, “XXIII. Reclining nude with wildflowers sign I”

The last two stanzas are cut-up from Jean-Paul Sartre's novel NAUSEA.

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The moon greens the entire night,
afternoon abandoning its coppery wave,
evaporating wet grass oceans
into a fine, acidic mist.

The avian wind picks clean the last leaves,
passing over the frosty knowledge of our eyes
and leaving only an indistinguishable burning, failing bliss
lush with the spectacular absence of flowers.

A tree knows how to feel busy,
awaiting the ridiculous chestnut murmur of
the ellipsis in the air like grotesque music
floating half-forgotten in wasted daylight.

The silence of feeble smiles
floods these sun-bleached barriers!

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from Waiting For The Months When Wildflowers Grow From My Head, released June 25, 2015

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Zavis Kalandra Athens, Ohio

Bobby // Guitar
Cody // Drums
Jamie // Vocals
Mitch // Bass

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