the fog flows into the house 
through the steep and narrow driveway 
the endless night, it is now 
nothing more than a sweet decay 

hoping to be astonished tomorrow 
by what I do not know 
my eyes will burst when hit 
by the blades of the coming sun 

the radio blares from the corner store 
the streets remember they once were fields 

the radio blares from the corner store 
the streets remember they once were fields 

gone are disorderly avenues 
of eucalyptus and beaten paths 
it is the dream I sometimes forget 
the endless night, nothing more than a scent 

the radio blares from the corner store 
the streets remember they once were fields 

the radio blares from the corner store 
the streets remember they once were fields

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Throw Us a Dollar

The Streets Remember They Once Were Fields

how many things have I looked up 
in a lifetime 
of looking things up 

a silent prayer just the moon on the road 
I will never wake up 
and play the piano 

the days are stacked against what we think we are 
it's nearly impossible 
to surprise ourselves. 

I've decided to make up my mind about nothing 
I've decided to finish my life 
disguised as a creek 

I swam in the river and then I forgot 
it was water. I'm just trying 
to unlearn the Universe 

how easy it glows, how easy it dims 
the firefly, the night in your eyes 
a billion years old 

the unbearable flowering, falling of stars 
her eye a kaleidoscope 
of hail and farewell 

we stopped at a traffic light, emptiness everywhere 
every canyon aches 
for its sky 

sinks into my soul 
just like honey 
sinks into my soul 
just like honey 
sinks into my soul 
just like honey 
sinks into my soul 
just like honey


This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Just Like Honey

come walk with me 
through a field of fennel and clover 
three weeks ago 
you threw them wildflower seeds down 

the fog has burned away 
laying in the sunshine 
rolling around like worms 
and spilling some hitching post wine 

come walk with me 
through a field of fennel and clover 
watch out for the thistle 
and the nasturtium flowers 

the mysterious grove 
stands with knobbly knees 
the house next door 
has seen better days 

come walk with me 
through a field of fennel and clover 
three weeks ago 
you threw them wildflower seeds down 

Come walk with me 
through a field of fennel and clover

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Come Walk With Me

It was a lady 

'companied by goat men 

Her hair held up the earth 

her eyes were dark then 



Wandering and loneliness 

through switchbacks and history 

These frail engines of love 

bound to a mystery 



where are you now? 

I'm falling down 

You've led me to a field 

Under a widening sky 



From time to time the mind runs out 

of steam lacking in energy, 

These frail engines of love 

bound to a mystery 




unexplained in the meadow 

lay the dead bird 

the wind fluttered its wings 

mountains are just mountains 



the rain dismantles every night 

the great wink of eternity 

These frail engines of love 

bound to a mystery 



These frail engines of love


This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Frail Engines of Love

Let me cook you some dinner. 
Sit down and take off your shoes 
and socks and in fact the rest 
of your clothes, have a daquiri, 
turn on some music and dance 
around the house, inside and out, 
it's night and the neighbors 
are sleeping, those dolts, and 
the stars are shining bright, 
and I've got the burners lit 
for you, you hungry thing. 

"The Love Cook," by Ron Padgett, from You Never Know 

http://www.ronpadgett.com/

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

The Love Cook

time to start concentrating on which way I would turn after I locked the front door, what shop signs I would see, what bridges I would lean on to watch the broad river undulating, like a long-playing record under the needle of my eye. time to stand dripping wet and wonder about the hoards of people I would pass in the street, mostly people whose existence I did not believe in, but a few whom I would glance at and see my whole life the way you see the ocean. (Billy Collins) 

I have a feeling that my boat 
has struck down there in the depths 
sinking heavy into my soul 
nothing happens silence 

or everything speaks quietly 
now in this new life 
the grinding of the galaxies 
cuts through the tar-stained sky 

I wanna see my whole life 
the way you see the ocean from the shore 

I wanna see my whole life 
the way you see the ocean from the shore 

letting go of a slanderous heart 
while shelling beans in the heat 
in this endless century 
may we ride off in peace 

mountains and stars whirling, tumbling 
a bowl of milk, the rush of night 
the moon settles comfortably 
on the ground. travel light 

I wanna see my whole life 
the way you see the ocean from the shore 

I wanna see my whole life 
the way you see the ocean from the shore 

I wanna see my whole life 
the way you see the ocean from the shore

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Ocean

suddenly you're in a different place 
where things seem to happen in waves 
rounded eye is delighted by foam 
and a blue suspicion of the sea 

so green the fire in leaf and grass 
half a summer he paid the last 
led down a path by the lunatic fringe 
could see the city from the crater's rim 

lovers loitered on the porch 
that dazzled yesterday's touch 

happiness is a hologram 
my cup is full, so let it spill 
a figment of something said 
worn out of my mind

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Happiness Is A Hologram

I went out to the hazelwood 
because a fire was in my head 
light was the wood, light and green 
and what I saw, I had not seen 

the bark of the tree 
a place where a fire had been 

the prickly water lily 
the chestnut and the burr 
a man with thick hair 
who washes it and dries it bare 

the little monkey looks at me 
he wants to tell me something that he has forgotten 

stone flowers, diamond fire 
and incandescent fruit 
the dog barked talking to the stars 
the rattlesnake coughed up my scars 

I saw the tracks of the sky 
on the ground. it was a galaxy turned upside down 

I woke up and i went out 
I heard your voice of white fire 
pierce through the black universe 
drowned out by friction of the earth 

translate your fear into love 
the way the sea is the moon's blood 

I went out to the hazelwood 
because a fire was in my head

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

Hazelwood

thou 
not 
that 
we 
to 
give 
who 
this 
what 
man 
ye 
old 
mother 
to hear 
hand 
fire 
to pull 
black 
to flow 
bark 
ashes 
to spit 
worm

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

The Oldest Words

when I am dead, it won't matter 
how hard you press your ear to the ground 
no one knows our name until our 
last breath has gone out 

the old dog bends his head listening 
I guess the sound of the earthworms get to him 
we look to the end of the tale 
and find black marigolds and silence 

and if you don't break your ropes while you're alive, 
do y'think the ghosts will do it after? 

I think of you walking along 
a headland of green oats in June 
so full of repose, so rich with life 
I see us meeting at the end of town 

close your eyes. I'm underneath their lids 
going to sleep, I cross my hands on my 
chest. It looks as though I'm flying 
into myself, into myself 

and if you don't break your ropes while you're alive, 
do y'think the ghosts will do it after? 

and if you don't break your ropes while you're alive, 
do y'think the ghosts will do it after?

This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.

credits
released 24 December 2013 
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)

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