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Caleb's Song

from Blood & Sand by Jade Sylvan

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You’re not very lucky.
Your first love died
just as you were being born.

One moment of eye-contact,
she learned your new name
and left you the blueprints for mourning in a storm.

No one called you.
No one wrote the kind of sad song
that cradles your heart safe in twine

She left you a camera
and the money to leave
that landlocked veranda behind you undefined.



When old skin grows ill-fitting
most people don’t know
it comes off clean as a dress

and new ones slip on sharply,
they follow the folds in your bones
and leave their impressions in your chest.

A heartfelt, deft pretender,
your faces shift swiftly
to riches you do not pursue.

The ocean has no gender
but it helps sometimes
to have some way to refer to him, it, her, you.



You’re not very lucky,
no keys to the kingdom
of answers to untie your tongue.

A life barren, a rough canvas
waiting to be stretched
and stapled to framework, strung, painted, and hung.

Your body hangs solely,
lonely enough for
viewing, touched only by light.

We can hold you with our gazes
and chase you with phrases
but none of them ever seems right. Not really. Not quite.

credits

from Blood & Sand, track released April 5, 2011
written by Jade Sylvan.
geetar and vox by Jade Sylvan.
slide guitar by Lee Wizda.
percussion by Zach Nazar.
produced by Lee Wizda.

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Jade Sylvan Somerville, Massachusetts

Jade Sylvan is a poet-turned-songwriter living in Somerville, Massachusetts. She fled her native Indiana shortly after graduating college to pursue dreams of becoming a writer. After getting her first book of poetry published and touring the country in 2009, she came home and began writing songs, which garnered instant attention in the famed Cambridge folk scene for their lyrics and melodies. ... more

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