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My Grandmother

from Pink Thunder by Michael Zapruder

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my grandmother
doesn't know pain
she believes that
famine is nutrition
poverty is wealth
thirst is water

her body like a grapevine winding around a walking stick
her hair bees' wings
she swallows the sun-speckles of pills
and calls the internet the telephone to america

her heart has turned into a rose the only thing you can do
is smell it
pressing yourself to her chest
there's nothing else you can do with it
only a rose

her arms like stork's legs
red sticks
and i am on my knees
howling like a wolf
at the white moon of your skull
grandmother
i'm telling you it's not pain
just the embrace of a very strong god
one with an unshaven cheek that scratches when he kisses you

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from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Valzhyna Mort, from Factory of Tears, Copper Canyon Press 2008. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder. Drums - Chris McGrew; Piano - Steve Hogan; Bass, guitars, synthetic mallets and bassoon, organ, synthesizer, background and lead vocal -Michael Zapruder. Drums, piano recorded by Sean Coleman at Closer Recording. Guitars, synthesizer, and various sonic treatments recorded by Eli Crews at N,IR. Bass, synthetic mallets and bassoon, organ, 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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