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deity of erosion, usnea, puppy dog

by ember wishbone

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grits I’m not sure I can accurately express what this album is to me. It’s like coming home after a long trip. There’s a light layer of dust on everything but it’s exactly where you want and need to be so you melt into the couch and breathe it all in. (I hope this comment somehow helps me learn more about ember wishbone, i found them by googling lyrics that I heard being sung in the background of an instagram story in 2017.)
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1.
lace 03:20
be careful what you put in you you never know what will grow the jaw can break careful what you put into yr mouth the teeth can break don't bite off more than you can chew she tells me i have the ability to make my body abort on its own can i really tell the body to do anything, anything? my dog learns this dying world by putting it into her mouth she eats the mud & drinks the poison of the mississippi & she'll be fine i could not drink the mississippi you never know what will grow the jaw can break the barrier breaks the heart breaks the train can break the seed can break the strings can break the blood can flow or collect & grow tomorrow night you will leave on an eastbound & ill miss the way you held me as if i were a hide & you were freezing i'll eat the seeds of queen annes lace every day for a week sometimes we destroy in the most gentle of ways the petals lace i've never been so happy to see the blood finally exit my body ive never been so heartbroken to let the blood leave
2.
when i miss you i can't stop staring at everybodys teeth no ones teeth are just like yours i miss yr crooked teeth i miss yr crooked teeth the most i miss yr ugly parts the most they are the parts i never will forget & that means theyre magical ugly is the realest thing i know & someday i'll regret this these are the most annoying words to have sewn inside my bones on the side of the highway all the roadkill jawbones have teeth like new gravestones theres a perfect order to the wild things why can't i stop thinking about that one time when you sat across from me & as i told you a story, you reached out & grabbed onto my crooked tooth as if you wanted to pull it right out of my head & keep it forever someday i'll forget this these are the most annoying words to have sewn inside my bones i miss yr crooked teeth, the poetry that they would spit & every time you put yr mouth on mine our teeth would hit we haven't kissed in years but like a dream i can't forget it i miss yr crooked teeth
3.
lavender 02:41
ursula won't you come move yr throat, make a sound ursula won't you come move yr body in a way that makes you happy id give you my heart if you wanted a snack you could eat up the whole thing & let the blood run down yr chin ursula wont you come lay yr head next to mine ursula wont you come put yr fingers in my fingers id give you my lungs if you wanted a toy you could put the windpipe to yr lips & blow them up like a balloon in the sky was a bloody sunset on the ground were rows of monocrops to our right was the raging ocean & to our left was a golf course that went on for miles id give you my tear ducts you could put them inside yr eyes having just one pair is not adequate when we live in a world like this i asked you, what color does being at the ocean make you feel? you thought about it for a while & then you said, lavender.
4.
he kisses me as if i'm his girlfriend long & soft his hand on my neck rot in my teeth he asks, how did you get so gentle? then he fucks me until i am dry body, my body's a nervous mouth he asks if it's okay a question that means nothing & when i get home half alive a man will say, "i wish i could spread my legs & get everything i want" the difference between this & rape is the difference between a sunrise & a sunset
5.
sleep 01:58
a stranger picks me the lovers card from his tarot deck says, "the only card stronger than this one is death" all of the humans have forgotten how to fall in love unless something is mysterious yr mother sleeps in a bed by herself every night her bed is the size of all the cedar trees in the world combined yr father sleeps downstairs on the couch with the dogs he's the happiest man ive ever met he's the saddest man ive ever met i will always sleep in a bed with you even if our bed is the dirt
6.
throat 02:09
i'm gunna make a wish on you don't blow away like dandelion seeds don't blow away like early morning dreams riding a south bound train at night i dream of tattooing my mothers thigh adrenaline in my body as if i am running for my life if my dreams dont have hands how am i supposed to hold them? the first time you scream you are 32 we're on top of a mountain in the rain inside of a cloud like the world disappeared the first time you scream you are 32 what a heavy burden for the throat to hold i'm gunna make a wish on you the first time you scream you are 32 what a heavy burden for the throat to hold if my dreams dont have hands, how am i supposed to hold them?
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vines 03:31
the vines on the trees are as thick as necks down by the tracks & the junkyard they hang from the trees like the ropes of swings they'll keep on growing despite everything lost in a small town in tennesse someone has been here before me under the train bridge graffitti makes me feel less alone when i'm lonely i could wait for a train it might not stop for days alone in the woods with my dog & the vines the sun starts to set at 4 oclock i haven't seen colors like this since you brought us to yr hometown in southern california in the morning i'll mistake the snow for yr touch falling asleep in the cold womb of night i have wrapped my body round yrs hundreds of times i wish you were here on the ground next to me yr body a tree, my limbs a vine i could wait for a train it might not stop for days alone in the woods with my dog & the vines or the trees are the necks & each vine is a rope down by the tracks & the junkyard each rope an escape you hide inside yr throat you'll keep on living, despite everything i could wait for a train it might not stop for days alone in the woods with my dog & the vines i will wait for you might not see you for days

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these are some songs i've been writing & rewriting over the past few years. yr million sweetness is a cover, by diane cluck. the song "nervous mouth" has potentially triggering content of being about sex work & mentioning rape. like everything, these songs are dedicated to my best friend, usnea. xoxo

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released April 3, 2016

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