The Dancefloor​/​Beat Crush

from Three Nights in the Wawayanda by Hourloupe

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lyrics

The lake is lit from below
The blue light fades and glows

God fingers a pearl in the pouch
Of his pants, asks how it got there
Figures by chance and that orb

With its silk-seeming layers
Of cloudy sperm and squirts of yellow ocher
Bordered by blue skim turns

As God walks, up and down
And to and fro and now the blue light of the ice
Intensifies and pulses and the muted

Rhythms grow as ice plateaus
Reshuffle and the dance floor crumbles
And a bubble of Mesozoic air

Doesn’t so much burst as is pared
Away and like a clear silver pearl, like a globe
Of rain in which is trapped God’s face

Rises to meet your nostrils
You are inspired of ancient breath
And take in microscopic bundles

Of ashen ammonites whose winding
Inward stairs collapse in a puff
All the dancers on the floor ingest

And each transform into an ammonite
Herself, a being of spiral drawers
Of memory and love and just a little

O even just a little will to transform
Themselves…but the dancers
Cannot see below their feet
To lava fingering the ice
Wedges and freon is leaking
From all the fridges and the dance floor

Is melting and in the moment that commences
The dancers slide each into each a tangle
Of arms and legs and penises and anuses

And vulvas up until the dance floor swallows as it boils over

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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. ... more

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