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Birdman

from Pink Thunder by Michael Zapruder

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I feel this tragic figure sitting on me
as stars dot to dot over the water that is potable.
As shoeblack in the hair will defoliate the scalp.
As lyric, lyric cries the verb, speaking of the thing.
(As the lawyer looks around for an ashtray.)
The ferry's arc the ferry's lamp
the inchoate sumac the inchoate sumac's blonde wig
tossed casually now above the rocks.
City as the merciful end of perspective,
city as.
He said may we talk briefly so that God can be glimpsed
and alongside human conversation.
Heron. Hilarity. Time,
hilarious white spoonbill that cannot be held in the mind.
Erotic ripple marks on shore
failing to prove one's presence,
my halting attempt in the gusting spray.
Yes, sir. Yellow pine.
Some are more released by words. For some, hell is other people.
He wears a green eyeshade cap, like an aging umpire,
in January 1943 issue of American Canary
Title: "I Wonder."
He spoke for the pillars, the bars, the sea air, the perpendicular pronoun,
the little gods running around the rocks with small black cameras.
Sometimes I too feel like a motherless
says the lawyer,
neural damage, agrees the doctor, each to each and in their horrible penmanship.
And nature does not abhor.
Once I was a House Sparrow
now I am a Yellow Hammer.

credits

from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Gillian Conoley, from Profane Halo, Verse Press 2005. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder. Electric guitar - Ava Mendoza; Organ bass - Gene V. Baker; Marimba - Shayna Dunkelman; Synthesizer 1 (Orchestron) - Matt Cunitz; Synthesizer 2 (Rogue), additional synths - Steve Hogan; Shaker, piano, background and lead vocals - Michael Zapruder. Electric guitar, organ bass, marimba, synthesizers 1 and 2 recorded by Eli Crews at Tiny Telephone Studios. Additional sythesizers recorded by Eli Crews at N,IR. Shaker, piano, vocals recorded by Michael Zapruder at 1924 Franklin. Mixed by Eli Crews at N,IR. Mastered by Dave McNair at Sterling Sound.

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“Michael Zapruder makes beautiful folk-pop ballads resonant of the voice of Rufus Wainwright and wordplay of Andrew Bird" – Pitchfork

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