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Chapter IX: To Whimsy and Stone

from The Memory of Good by Miriam Marston

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I started out with left and right,
small wicker chairs and early nights.
Tying a shoe was no small thing,
lofty the joy that waves would bring.
I took an afternoon to wonder:
why all the noise in all the thunder?
Oh, that storm!
Oh, You wore it so well!
I never could outrun Your reach,
I started out with right and wrong,
wars and alliances belonged only in realms within a yard,
leaving us glad, with tiny scars.
I took an evening to discover signs of a God, a patient lover;
Oh, that sunset!
Oh, You wore it so well!
I never could outrun Your reach.
All of this wayfaring has turned me older.
All of my sighs are spent.
Although I’ve said I want it to be over,
I’ve kinda liked it when you promised
You would follow me just about anywhere I went.
Tell me the way that this all ends, tell me so I can start again.
What of the road that bends away from all this darling disarray?
Here at the border, counting graces
from all the most unlikely places.
Oh that silence!
Oh, You wore it so well!
I never could outrun Your reach.
I started out with left and right,
Small wicker chairs and perfect sight.

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from The Memory of Good, released September 7, 2017

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Miriam Marston Portland, Oregon

I started composing when I was 10. I called one of my first songs "Nostalgia", although I can't recall what my ten year old self was so nostalgic about. Released my first album in 2000. Things got busy, but I never stopped writing. Even if it meant composing on a mostly-broken piano in the basement of a university that I wasn't even enrolled in. Enjoy all the music and reading! Pax. MM ... more

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