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Excerpt From Ancient Fruit

from Affirmations and Storms Returning by Eric George

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When your heart's ropes are taut
And the words are caught in your throat
As though the thought is stuck
Stubbornly like a rock in dry dirt

And to lift your hand
To stop the falling of an auction hammer
Is a gesture like wind
Blowing a bolt of lightning

When the well-tended roads of emotion
Like Roman waterways crumble
Into the rivers of your arms
And the careful current carried
Through the deltas of your legs
Up to the monument of your mind
Comes pouring over the sides
Of the marble slides
Down into the quiet village
Of your heart,

You might start to feel that
The ropes are taut from falling walls
Being raised up by the enduring community
Of your endless breath



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Too Young To Remember



Oh, I'm too young to remember

I hear it said often
As though the right to the past
Requires a 401K or a slick new coffin

I don't know that John Denver song
But I know some scarred lines
Of mining songs once sung
On the sides of those
West Virginia country roads
(They spoke in code
so they wouldn't get shot
by coal company thugs)

You'd think they swept your generation
Under the rug by the way you talk
As though the cultural mausoleum
Containing your peace-sign pins
For all these years has been
Bolted and locked

Am I too young to remember?

No, I'm just not old enough to forget,
The way you did when you let
Change slip through your fingers
After you smoked your last marijuana cigarette
Only to place stock market bets
In paisley wearing a necktie
Staring at your secretary's body
Like she doesn't notice

And you hold this
Asking if I know this or that song
By someone who stole it
From an artist who wrote it
But wasn't allowed to vote

Oh, but I'm too young to remember,
It was before my time



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Wanting Poetry


I miss making love with words;
I want to make these pages scream
And ask for more,
I want to be turned on
By my handwriting
And daydream in poems
That pant in my ear
With words that moan
As they read themselves
Half asleep in the middle of the night;
I want to write so long
That exhaustion means nothing
Until I cover the page with ink
And awake with my pen in hand



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Wedding

Honeymoons in hurricanes
White balloons in lightning storms
The marquee made of metallic bones
Praying in silent static chants

Clouds spinning in tumbling grace
Offering a whipping gray finger
To touch the earth
In the oldest marriage

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from Affirmations and Storms Returning, released May 5, 2018

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Eric George Burlington, Vermont

Eric George is a Vermont-based songwriter, sound engineer, and performer of original music and poetry. One of the most prolific folk musicians of the Northeast music scene, he is intent upon maintaining the integrity of American folk music while taking a contemporary approach to songwriting. ... more

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