Tortoise Boxing

from Three Nights in the Wawayanda by Hourloupe

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lyrics

When one places oneself in an attitude of listening
In nature, the rarest kinds of music
Advance themselves on the ear. I was seated on a log
Dialoguing with a shape trapper. Neither
Of us spoke but as we shared a smoke of kinnikinnick
And exchanged sips from a red-eye jar
A sound like deep ferocious thumping
Made itself aware to us: arhythmic, or perhaps
Rhythmic in a way other than the common styles are:
Heavy knocking, followed by silence in which I surmised
Was a resolution made to re-attack.
My companion, after a time in which he seemed to contrast
The sound to other instances from memory, smiled
At my bewilderment and answered without my ask:
Tortoises. Males. Aggressing by knocking together of shells.
For as long as it lasted I sat and began
To whistle a melody to which I’d returned
Many times and will return to again

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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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