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The Hatchet

from Sway by Dry Wedding

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lyrics

see the forest
not for the trees
a mad dash with a hatchet
branches leave their mark on me

seldom notice
until I’ve come and gone
bandages torn
from lacerations raw

rest for a minute
mend this threadbare grip
a fistful of attrition
as I pick up the hatchet

hack at the earth
pound and press it dense
it’s time to hold on to something new
and bury the hatchet

bury the hatchet
hope the roots don’t take
pray the shoots don’t raise
the soil from its resting place

pluck and press the first leaf
in a book of fiction
hastily arranged
illegibly written

I don’t trust the sun
I can’t count on the rain
to handle the hatchet
while I wait

weather withered or unearthed
I trace all of its growth
from every window
I see it sprout from its shallow hole

dig it up myself
cloak in new ground
lay a stone on the surface
slow the sprouting down

carefully through the trees
come upon a clearing
enter with the hatchet
leave clutching nothing

not one twig or crag
no trail of branches snapped
no mark for where it rests
no path to lead me back

I don’t trust the sun
I can’t count on the rain
to handle the hatchet
while I wait

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from Sway, released December 17, 2021

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