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THE ABANDONED HIVE

THE ABANDONED HIVE. MUSIC BY BRYAN CURT KOSTORS. TEXT BY MICHELLE BRITTAN. THE ABANDONED HIVE. MUSIC BY BRYAN CURT KOSTORS. TEXT BY MICHELLE BRITTAN. I. ON BECOMING A STATUE. The house is no longer a shelter. The air inside is the same as the air outside. I have. no use. for walls,.

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THE ABANDONED HIVE

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  1. THE ABANDONED HIVE • MUSIC BY BRYAN CURT KOSTORS • TEXT BY MICHELLE BRITTAN

  2. THE ABANDONED HIVE • MUSIC BY BRYAN CURT KOSTORS • TEXT BY MICHELLE BRITTAN

  3. I. ON BECOMING A STATUE

  4. The house is no longer a shelter. • The air inside is the same as the air outside. • I have • no use • for walls,

  5. only windows.

  6. My breathe turns into moss, • my eyes follow a leaf

  7. pulling itself • pulling itself • pulling itself

  8. along the sidewalk. • Perhaps the wind will lead it • under the tire • of a car.

  9. Perhaps it will only absorb • the rain and the coming night.

  10. I don’t believe the leaf will settle • below the arch of my foot.

  11. I don’t believe

  12. I’m a refuge • to anyone.

  13. I don’t notice • the moment

  14. the leaf is gone

  15. because I’m trying to remember

  16. the • sun’s • heat

  17. I held in the stone of my body.

  18. At night, • I’m the same color • as the moon.

  19. II. THE ABANDONED HIVE

  20. The bees are gone • but the walls in summer drip honey,

  21. the abandoned hive • waking in heat.

  22. In a dream I hear the drone, • the plaster teeming,

  23. and the floor beneath lifts

  24. into flight.

  25. III. ON WAKING WHEN YOU’RE • ALREADY LEAVING

  26. The slide of the bolt and lock, • fingers snapped • at the end of a spell -

  27. your body • walking to the car • under the inscrutable graffiti of the stars -

  28. invisible garland of your green bar of soap • still hanging aromatic in the dim hallway • outside the shower -

  29. the steam retreating to mirror’s oval border, • my face appearing after yours • in the cleared center -

  30. the tiny light of the coffee pot • burning at the back of the kitchen,

  31. a pinhole in the night’s last darkness -

  32. the pan you cooked eggs in, • the filigree of yellow along the edge

  33. in a ring,

  34. lifted out

  35. whole

  36. like a crown.

  37. The slide of the bolt and lock, fingers snapped

  38. at the end • of a spell.

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