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One Breath

from The Devil's Share by Steven Heighton

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ONE BREATH

I’m just an ordinary traveller
In this world I’m weary and perplexed
I know fear’s the great unraveller
I know how many it infects
But just when it seems that even “love” is just another word
A word no better than the next
There’s one thing I always recollect . . .

There’s a certain late night languor
That your kiss alone corrects
And so this love grows ever stronger
From one breath to the next

Though strangers close their faces
And the oldest friend defects
I can sense you in the spaces
From one breath to the next

There’s a kind of code between us
That each kiss and touch encrypts
A circuit that contains us
And nothing disconnects
And this link is what sustains us
From one breath to the next

The bitters we drink daily
Leave us shattered and unsexed
But your touch can still remake me
From one breath to the next

They say we’re all born liars—
I feel I really must object
Like the fool a mad king requires
You sing truths no one expects
And with your versions I will conspire
From one breath to the next

I’ve noted your indifference
To empty things the world respects
It lives to talk, while love is just this listening
From one breath to the next

While colonels arm the children
And their researchers vivisect
And we get bilked and battered
By the usual suspects
And the haters find new ways to hate
And shatter and reject
We’ll lie down and lodge our silent protest
From one breath to the next

So stay beside this sleeper
The one your vigilance protects
Even now his love is travelling deeper
From one breath to the next

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from The Devil's Share, released April 24, 2021
Lyrics and music by Steven Heighton. © 2020 Steven Heighton/Hightone Music (SOCAN).

Pete Bowers: druns
Hugh Christopher Brown: Steinway grand piano and orchestra
Teilhard Frost: percussion
Steven Heighton: vocals, guitar
Jason Mercer: bass

The Devil’s Share released April 2021 by Wolfe Island Records/CRS Europe.

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Steven Heighton Kingston, Ontario

Heighton is the author of 18 books--novels, poetry, stories, and nonfiction. He has published work in Granta, the New York Times, Tin House, London Review of Books, Best American Poetry, and many others. His first album, "The Devil's Share," produced by Hugh Christopher Brown of Wolfe Island Records, will be released April 21, 2021. ... more

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