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Deserve

from CelloWoman by Mudsong

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Yet. There’s this.

This utter relief of hollowness, of weightlessness. A woman-bodied belly for nothing but sound. Doubled-over ache gives sharply away to the place that can now resonate each gutter, each star, and bring each its song.

In gratitude, she weeps. Echoing headfirst around her new carapace. Speechless, handless, she produces her own second chord.

Her amazement at this feat gives way to the plopping of each pregnant tears.

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Can you be real soft in dappled ground? Can you sway like columbine unbound? Can you gather what’s left here for you where the world is born each breath anew?

Will you let this set your heart a-break? Will you let this clamor you awake? ‘Cause it’s not about what you deserve. It’s about what you came here to learn.

Can’t be a thing as way too much. Don’t swallow that ol’ hogwash. The earth don’t know how to stop its grow. Oh, as its child, you were born to sow.

When your moments are born each day of sky and her seeds drift to your heart inside. Learn to hold out likeso both your hands and plant them where they choose to land.

So you trip and flounder ‘cross your ground, tending all that you were born to found and you dazzle at the teeming feast that your sowing here with heaven’s seed.

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from CelloWoman, released June 5, 2021

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Mudsong Bemidji, Minnesota

Mudsong crafts stories that give voice to our breaking human hearts. Thomas King said, “The truth about stories is that’s all we are."  The truth about Mudsong is songstories are all we are. Original stories. Soulful songs. Crafted from the sloppy mess of life? That's what we do. Our evenings open on the hearthfire of the bass guitar, shimmy through the saxophone, and linger over heart and soul. ... more

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