The Garden Of Wild Stars

from In The Garden Of Wild Stars by Twelve Thousand Days

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& he is brave/& not such a stranger/beneath the blazing sky
set like a stage/eureka adventuring/acting out meaning/
in masks newly given/
& good to the taste .

now that he's found you/dead is the day -
the perfect fool is blundering/where you are stumbling/
beneath the garden of wild stars & pain .

eyes, two tiny portholes/the night likewise frames him/slowly slipping around the place like tar, like pitch, like beauty beckoning into earth/
to fill out a blank slate .

&, the sung shadows are kind to the eyes that smile upon them/kind,
as to a slave/as to a believing lover - & the night it is gathering,
reeling & hauling you in/you, masked in your dismay .

& now that he's found you : dead is the day .

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from In The Garden Of Wild Stars, released March 2, 2023

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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