Too Slow For Now

from Songs For Samuel by Norah Vincent & Vern Woodhead

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TOO SLOW FOR NOW

We are standing on an orb,
Which means
The past is not behind us,
But beneath,
And the future’s not before us,
But above.

Cleaving rocks and riding fire,
We dig for history
And fly for time.
As onion skins,
Our eras and unknowns
accumulate.

YEARS ARE ONLY DISTANCES
LIGHTENING AT SPEED
A PYROTECHNICS WE WOULD JOIN
IF ONLY WE COULD CATCH IT
IN FEVERED TRAVEL WE ESCAPE
UNDERMINE AND OVERLOOK
THE PRESENT TENSE
AND THINKING FASTER
BURNING BRIGHTER
BLAZE BY EVERY MOMENT
WE SHOULD MARK

Fretted stars
Sparkle through the ages
Their nows, our would be-s,
Our current, their past.
Yet we shine as they do.

Our waves of thought,
Though weak,
Twitter all the same.
In Godot’s
Relative perspective,
All, not nothing,
Happens twice,
But still, we miss it —twice.

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from Songs For Samuel, track released October 2, 2019
Words: Norah Vincent
Music: Vern Woodhead
Vocals: Vern Woodhead
Guitars: Vern Woodhead
Keyboard: Vern Woodhead
Bass: Dmitry Ishenko
Drums: Rob Mitzner
Mix: Charles Burst

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