is it the morning?

from shadows by Rowan Rain

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Is it the morning, or is it the night?

A siren’s singing scream spills into the city streets and as I walk they collide with my footsteps ringing on the pavement that patches up the rivers running real far down below I feel them flow beneath my feet even though the pipes confine them now

The birds follow me to work I chirp and I don’t know what I’m saying but they seem to like me anyways we hop and skip down broadway over nails that litter hallways temporarily constructed in the street

I will go to sleep to escape the noise

People think the city’s dead but it’s just breathing in a different way like the grass that cracks the sidewalks way the concrete warps and bubbles way when the roots keep growing all the time and that darling angel creeper vine engulfs my window finally

I will sing a spell with the other birds
A love song to the weeds and to the dirt
Concrete comes alive in the shadow of the night
When I sleepwalk east to where the water rushes

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from shadows, released March 14, 2019

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Rowan Rain Ireland

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dark water, starlight

rooted in an ancient world of folkloric magics, haunting dream folk woven with threads of hypnotic melody, poetic lyrics, and soulful storytelling

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