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Soulmaker (That Fire)

from Dead Reckoning by Kate Fenner

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A song for poets, written after reading some Theodore Roethke. The title refers to Keats' theory of soul-making.

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Soul-maker
for Theodore Roethke

You hear your echo in the echo
You see your shadow in the dark
An empty vessel from the get-go
The arrow somehow sped its mark

Dark your light and dark desire
The dare that wakes you in the dawn
Barely begun the day’s on fire
Barely grasped and then it’s gone

Your mind still a city in the night
The black universe past the rim of light

A sense of need, a student’s dread
The hunt the drive the breaking through
Flash-flood of dazzle hurts your head
The rise and fall and then the truth

The wheel, the call, the scope of it all
The breadth the loss the mute free-fall
The atom the cosmos the ocean the tear
The reckless glow around the fear

The black universe past the rim of light
You chose your sorrow over despair
You have merged like a bird with the bright air

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from Dead Reckoning, released January 15, 2023
Kate, Connor, Stéphane, Mark. Chris Brown added some Hammond organ. Scotty put some low end on it!

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