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from Pink Thunder by Michael Zapruder

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When I was a kid my dad told me the stars made the sounds of crickets.
The silver trills that had kept me up until then every night
weren’t spilling from the legs of little black insects
but brilliant points of light in the sky.

He said this to me from outside my window in the early morning
or deep night in a sleep voice I thought was the Gulf of Mexico
fumbling into the shore, so I whispered back,
the ocean was a liar

and I knew it because the other day
my dad told me the stars weren’t spider eggs but distant silent suns
so far away they may already have died
and only the light exists of them now in the great invisible net cast out by our eyes.

Then something strange happened. His giant bald head rose into the window frame
followed by his one green eye, one blue eye,
then his red veined nose and finally his beard fuzzed mouth

which sang out in a clear human voice I have been afraid of ever since.

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from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Travis Nichols, from See Me Improving, Copper Canyon Press 2010. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder. Electric bass - Nate Brenner; Drums - Tyler Corelitz; Piano - Steve Hogan; Acoustic and electric guitars, Farfisa, background and lead vocals - Michael Zapruder. Drums, bass, and some electric guitars recorded by Eli Crews at N,IR. Piano, acoustic and some electric guitars, Farfisa, 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 Austin, Texas

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

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