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Great Gram

from i by Her Fantastic Cats

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Fireflies in a vacant lot are lighting up the fuselage of a million tiny space shuttles an upward and a glowing and a gold mirage. Lightning bugs, cats and the mountains and the plants being pulled up by the force of what has come before all breaking and losing steam, moving on and evaporating.
It’s a dark night in Woodsboro and it’s far from the shore. Great Gram’s up from the rocker and she’s standing at the door. She’s backlit by the kitchen and by her 94 long years. staring out into the dark while her grandson loads the car full of x-mas gifts and great-grandkids, there’s still more room out than in (MY GREAT GRAM USED TO SAY THAT EVERY TIME SHE FARTED)but when the inside falls apart there is a vacuum that starts and the outside presses in and it all just breaks my heart. There’s bamboo in the basement and it’s stacked up all in piles, the fireflies are everywhere lighting up like smiles. Summer memories elicit cheers from darkened beds, while I’m buckled in the bathtub with the faucet at my head. It’s a simple, silly thing to love the winter and to hate the spring, but it doesn’t ring anymore true to love the many and hate the few. Every spring has the potential- there is the warning things will freeze. Every baby goes through autumn, cracks it’s mind and breaks its knees. From every graying head we see the passing of our day. We’ve seen it all so clear before, our words have slipped away. One clear and loving morning as the pulse it ebbs and fades she sees universal truth and gives us “ray” (KRISTI ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS SAYING “RAIN” WHICH IS KIND OF COOL, BUT “RAY” IS ACTUALLY THE ONLY WORD MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER SAID TOWARDS THE END OF HER LIFE, AND OUR TIME AROUND HER WAS ALWAYS PUNCTUATED WITH IT)

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from i, released August 9, 2012
Nate Pauzenga- bass

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