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Bare

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    Dedicated to Sean Armstrong
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0TD6k3RTLg
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This track incorporates poetry recordings of Sean Armstrong, who passed away June 25, 2009. I am very fortunate to have been blessed with his friendship.

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Bare

Muted trumpet flares
My soul reprimands
Eye seems shut
Red wine bottles
Placed delicately, deviant
Oh so carefully
Bare
Cellars cold chairs scattered
Waiting
Condensed chains ferment
Grape vines

I am holding this empty glass
Someday shattered by your brass words
Muted trumpet
Bare
I have known you
Once upon a time
What’s your name?
In this lifetime

A dream precognition
Sitting by the ancient oak bar
Having this heart to heart
Reconciliation
You again
Here to tear apart
Time
Musical spaces, here
Do it again

I am a red wine glass
Hold me to your lips
Like brass eye locks
Connect again
That old jazz melody
In the last life
We wrote muted records
Trumpets scratching needles
Held to our heads
Sweating in Warsaw ghetto beds
Numbered chord progressions
Shouting precognition of Nazi
Concentration silent camps
Collecting pain
We sit and recollect
Where our eyes
Have been in love again
What’s your name?
This time
Do I dare to remember?
The day they took you away
I placed brass keys down
The record needle
Became a place in my soul
I filled it again and again

I am an empty red wine glass
Ancient oak bars
Waited, sitting between us
Reconnect, reminisce about the past
Names we gravely carried
Away by our footsteps
Pressed into the incineration ashes
Of our friends
Lovers
Compositions
Burned Nazi fires
Irreconcilable melodies coalesce
Muted trumpet blares
I remember your name then
Your name now
That same song
You play is mine

I place down
The empty glass
Pour the red bottle back
Down my soul
Needles filled with forgotten records
The compositions reborn
Bare
Cellar walls cold
Waiting
To be opened
Set down
Like the souls we saw burned
Reprimand
The painful record marks
Scratches we carry through time
We break chains of grape vines
Angry, bloody red fermenting
Aged melodies
Opened past cellar doors
Warm to the mouth
My lips press the glass

I drink you in
Again and again
And again
You’re playing our song
Throughout time
Again and again
And again
I drink you in
I drink you in
I drink you in


Ami M. Hanna

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from eleven, released February 19, 2010
Bare poem written by Ami Hanna, Poetry Samples from Sean Armstrong

Music sampled from Pink Martini "Vernonique"

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Voyeur, audiophile, detective of the lost and and forgotten gems of public domain. I am a VJ, videographer and music producer currently based in SLC, Utah. Enjoy the show.

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