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Midwestern Christmas

The boy in the blue snowsuit is fat,
nearsighted and snivels
when the whip
snaps back
the snow.
His hands are fans:
bruised blue coral
humming
in the corners
of his elastic mittens.
He’s mumbling to himself
stumbling in the slush
one foot in
one foot out.
At the pond
he stops,
cackles at the ducks
growing drunk in the ice.
He thinks
how big he will grow:
Big as the tucks
that haul the hogs away;
Big and bland
as these sloping plains
murmuring to themselves
their own private song.
So he slides along
the surface
of this frozen lake
taking stock – counting
the years ahead,
swallowing the days
one after another,
growing
and planning
his own secret home
under acres of this Midwestern snow.

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from Of What I've Seen, released August 26, 2023
Roger Aplon - spoken word
Marcos Fernandes - drums
Eric Glick Rieman - prepared Rhodes

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Marcos Fernandes 横浜市, Japan

A native of Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes spent over three decades in California as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Hong Kong and Japan as a solo singer-songwriter, improviser, phonographer and percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles, dancers, poets and visual artists. ... more

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