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For a Chinese Poet Writing Through the Night Up on Mt. Pollux

from Pink Thunder by Michael Zapruder

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Now I could see I'd been stirring the pot
For almost ten thousand years.
I could see I'd be stirring forever.
So far nothing had changed.
Nobody appeared.
I stirred myself into a bottomless sleep,
I was the smallest thing in the world.
Fragment of spit, rumor of mud.
Something that almost might have been.
I no longer had skin or fine hairs along
My arms for wind to chill or an ant to wander
Over. I no longer had friends.
No sister, no brother.
I hadn't cried when my father & my mother
Waved goodbye and their ship exited the harbor.
I hadn't asked them where they were going.
They left me no instructions.

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from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Dara Wier, from Remnants of Hannah, Wave Books 2006. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder. Cello - Beth Vandervennet; English Horn - Kyle Bruckmann; Acoustic guitar, piano, synthesizer (Paraphonic 505), background and lead vocals - Michael Zapruder. Cello, English horn and piano recorded by Sean Coleman at Closer Recording. Synthesizer recorded by Eli Crews at N,IR. Acoustic guitar, 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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