Spontaneous Rune

split-second-reflex memory made instinct: I 
snapped 
like the crack of 
a short leather whip 
in hand and dropped 
before becoming 
consciously aware of 
what it was I held.  

I remember my grandfather too
did this in the pasture 
one evening 
when I was 
a child looking down 
at the lifeless, broken-necked snake
whose body makes 
a letter shape now
on the ground, 
a spontaneous Finnish rune.

I somehow sense its 
death note spells: ichhhhhh?
and tossing the limp corps to Willow Creek,
its funeral myth slips too.  
Do not take pity. No, don't take.  
It will glide on the current 
to Cayuga's gentle waves
to fly straight like an arrow
in the graceful long neck 
of an old, old Canadian goose.  

--Gabriel Tavares

Spontaneous Rune

Opening for SRB at Castaways around 2001 with Uniit Carruyo, Steve Curtis and Tim Collins.

Loom (LIVE at Castaways)

Recorded LIVE on WRFI by Jonathan Hochberg.
Additional overdubs and mixing by Gabriel Tavares and Lora Pendleton.

Marzy Red Flute 5 - 31 - 15

Lora Pendleton Bass Vox
Diwas Gurung Madaal
Gabriel Tavares Guitars Vox and mixing

Moses (Lora Bass Diwas Madaal) 8-7-15

Gabriel Tavares Guitars Vox 
Lora Pendleton Bass Vox
Mixed by Gabriel Tavares and Lora Pendleton


Moth Wing Fur--Gabe Lora Mix

A mix-up of Iberian Brazilian and Upstate New York accents inspired by LI coffee soda.