See moon full rise
Cracked my poetry bones
See a more dazzling light
Wind comes and shakes the outsides
This mornin'
Pull you close and feel you breathe
Feel this body shake off this coat 
This mornin'

This Morning

All the colors in your head must be red

Setting fires on fall trees to the bridge

But my skin try to stay tough in the rough wind

Seasons change and not getting fucked is a new skill

Used to grab hold of things and squeeze until they choke

There's a moon eclipse by the river by the fire I note

    Not alone put our minds together

    Oneida prayer for this new weather

All branches in your head lead to her might be dead

At least on hold like trees put away their colored leaves

Might you be as bold just say fuck it and show some new colors

We're not that old and you're right to be curious about your new life

Oneida Prayer

So focussed on
Heads below sheets so plain 
You called it
Bein' alone triggers hard feelings
And it holds a long long long time
Croon you've been bad
In the rigid in the froid I don't give a fuck
Just bein' a kid gotta be some fucking luck
It's brother's day hit the lake back home
I bet look too hairy and unfamiliar
You only knew trees fall
In a pit somewhere like us
Casualty had to come forthwith
accept some darkness to proliferate
In the rigid in the froid I don't give a fuck
Just bein' a kid gotta be some fucking luck
 

Trees Fall Like Us

Family Trips in our state
Wisconsin waters, parks and daughters
Hold her hand but watch balefire
She's in a place call our favorite lake
Little secret of the town we're from
Mark the start of our stable age
Go to where the driftless stay
See the bluffs, sip Mississippi
And your parents' halls of ivy
Take me north of the tension line
Beatles birthday at Fiddlers Green that time
Sing along to the ones we know



Balefire

Portage

P i a n o

the color dissolve displaced 
what left bare bowls and plates
cause you wanted things cleaned
inform to bone and beat
in a lump roll up bed
holy hoax deceive 

you're such an athlete with them
game for scorin' friends 
this torch cauterize
light, ignite, aflame 
and woke me up late
gonna leave in original shape
with that skeleton in the dresser

     don't need to meet me first
     meet me in this corner of milwaukee
     call it desperate
     callin' it wont work neat
     soon you were bitchin'
     and soakin' your dishes

take the fuckin' aftertaste
and douche the bitter out
you're no longer the princess
remember this business
you can shrug it off
or force interpretation
in the basement studio
you're digging in the dirt to see heaven

     the color dissolve displaced
     what left bare bowls and plates
     down in the basement studio
     you call me you call me you call me



Athlete

Had a great night last night with Patrick Mccoy who was improvising beats on my set.

Rivulet (feat Patrick Mccoy)

Unfinished Version by Jan & Ian

strengthen your bones prepare for Kortelopet 
share drink with your team celebrate you now earned it
in a cabin at Cable fuck shit if not stable
let frost take the garden if that's what you want
but call it baby love is now
don't wanna wait for feelings underground
i need livin' too

kinda hard to know
it's kinda hard to know and yet
how you not see been warnin' you, baby
been warnin' you, baby

kinda hard to fake it so don't at all
find you skunk drinkin' outside Debot dining hall
still preppin' yourself for the Birkebeiner
fuck the men who demand things be ever finer

was it wise to be leadin' you on babe
be leading you on babe

I A N

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