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lyrics

I am a charcoal man
My husk is black and burned so thin
Breathe on me and it will withstand no wind

Or your beautiful gentle breath

But I am stronger than life itself

Barbara, patroness of miners: her idol
Shimmers upon my altar of talc
Find me in the black rim of candles lit by my devout

By the intercession of Saint Blaise
Cross wax sticks at your throat
The dullest of blades yet
You’ll asphyxiate on this I hope:

My soft cannonade of a virus…

I can barely stay intact but in my collapse commences
My journey as the great pollinator of Gehenna’s hexagonal
Caverns that mount in rows and columns climaxing
Almost to the infinite

In every one the gold fire of honey blazes

Mine is the atomized soot that flakes and colonizes
Blacks out lanterns in miners’ faces

I engender hell
And another hell within it
Ice is my identical twin

I am a charcoal man

I am the shadow tied like a black balloon to your skin

I find you on the lake of ice among throbbing dancers
I am bobbing at your shin
Not enough helium to rise
And no one nearby
With a pin to do me in

So I wait for fire
And after it subsides is when I begin

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from Three Nights in the Wawayanda, released March 17, 2023

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Hourloupe: “I associate it, by assonance, to ‘hurler’ (to roar), to ‘huleler’ (to hoot), to ‘loup’ (wolf).”
—Jean Dubuffet

Hourloupe is a collaboration between writer, musician, and artist Frank Menchaca and Anar Badalov.
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