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Chicken Roast (A Painting)

from Honeymoon After a Rain by Matt Oleksa

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And oh so easily
She hangs me with a memory
On a cold, calculated tack
She’s mastered the ways to pin my back
To a summer scene ‘tween eight and nine
Mesquite cracklin’ ‘neath the pine
Trees drippin’ honey-heat
Crickets chewin’ around our feet

Blue and red make violet
And violets grow through holes
Between a chicken’s toes

I suppose you suppose I care
About the way your auburn hair
Cups your skin—milky, fair
On yellow coat, on groanin’ chair

Always again with Greco eyes
Catchin’ what’s fallin’ from the skies
A dove goes up, a crow comes down
Black petals splattered around
A wolf on her tippy-toes
Dustin’ the break in my nose
Between hot light and almost black
She’s mastered the ways to pin my back
To a summer scene ‘tween eight and nine
Mesquite cracklin’ ‘neath the pine
Trees drippin’ honey-heat
Crickets chewin’ around my feet

Blue and red make violet
And violets grow through holes
Between a chicken’s toes

I suppose you suppose I care
About the way your auburn hair
Cups your skin—milky, fair
On yellow coat, near groanin' chair

Blue and red make violet
And violets grow through holes
Between a chicken’s toes

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from Honeymoon After a Rain, released June 20, 2015
Matt Oleksa: vocals, guitar, percussion
Kevin Bass: bass, guitar

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