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snakebite lake

from creature comforts by a small bird

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A ramp-less highway through a wild wood—
Your smile, which never looked so good,
Cuts through the dark; the car is warm,
thick and boiling like a growing storm.

You put your failures to the side,
Kitschy ornaments and kitchen knives,
You don’t need anything tonight
That Snakebite Lake does not provide.

Aphrodite’s long-forgotten daughter
Dives headfirst into the water,
And though you watched the dive so close,
The surface seemed to be all solid stone.

They shed the cracking skins they wore
And leave their old suits on the shore,
And though it’s winter, the water’s warm,
A kiln in which a god is formed.

All rise up on mountain legs,
Vested in green and violet threads,
Garlands of amarylls on every head,
A round of sudden, sodden, steely breaths.

Phanes’s children, sons, and daughters
Swim like dancers in the water,
And you don’t even take off your shoes,
Just stand there willing laces to come loose.

Come loose!
Come loose!
(The color of a morning rose,)
Come loose!
(lavender and olive oil,)
Bm Am6 Gmaj7 F6
Come loose!
(As befits the bath of Virgo,)
Come loose!
(warrior in woman’s mold.)

The grey-eyed goddess’ forgotten daughter
Watches the figures in the water,
Clad in the most absolute arboreal ardor,
Brighter still than the yester-evening’s stars were.

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from creature comforts, released July 2, 2021

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a small bird Chicago, Illinois

a small bird is the solo project of a queer trans artist based in Chicagoland.

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