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Elsewhere, our train pulses through a yellow landscape
at full-speed. A plume billows behind it.
From a window, the sky ripples like a burnt map
over this continent or that one—the towns,
the countryside, the fields of wheat and goatgrass—
broken up by roads and tan hills
stacked like bread.

Back there, in a village,
women are sealing the backs of paintings
with brown paper. They fold it over the edges of the frames
the way they tucked their hair into gingham
when they were young. They are scurrying.
They are clothed.

No one watches them.
Now the candles are waiting on the windowsills.
Now the wooden ladders lean into the attics.

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from Roots Run Deep, released February 29, 2016
Old World Elegy performed by Angela Tomasino, voice & Chicago Q Ensemble

Music by Brian Baxter | brianbaxtermusic.com
Poetry by Richie Hofmann | richiehofmann.com
Produced by Brian Baxter and Alex Inglizian
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago | experimentalsoundstudio.org

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Brian Baxter Davenport, Iowa

Brian Baxter is a musician and orchestra manager who composes music inspired by family, place, and poetry.

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