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Swimming Through Stone

from Gift For The End by Mariee Siou

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I have heard about this
About walking into a room
And floor being covered in snake skins
Oh, snake skins
How I wanna crawl back into them
Like sleeping bags
And I need this like i need paper thin fins
How I envy the herrings
Always on their way
In easy flashes
Tiny lightning glinting
Like sparks when hooves strike flint
But I feel like I am swimming through stone

So I'll hold my brain out of the water
As I swim my remains back to her
'Cause the last thing that I need is a wet brain
During the hurricane
So I'll rest my weary head
Between the egret's beak
So I can hear you sing
The salmon eggs to sleep
With the songs of the wild

I thought the coast was clear
I thought the coast was clear
But I'm wading through dead skeeters
Through wriggling larva
Through blood suckers
I've never sucked blood before this
No I've never sucked blood before this
I've never sucked blood before this

And I knew better
But I walked right in again
And there is that floor all covered with
Owl pellets
I examine the tidy bits
Of wonder and decay
All mystified
At the little skeletal glories
I wonder what went on in the rabbits hole
And how these tiny things cannot seem to escape
Until we are left with snake skin
Matted fur and hair thin
Oh hair thin bones

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from Gift For The End, released April 1, 2012

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Mariee Siou Sierra City, California

Mariee Siou (formerly Sioux) was raised in Northern California in the Sierra Foothills. She's been writing and sharing songs, in the nature of the healing arts, for over 15 years. Her riveting poetry mixed with her ethereal music has often been described as medicinal and visionary. ... more

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