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Tired Horses

from Smash Hits by Roger Dean Young

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from "down easy" - 2010

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The sound of rolling rippling bells
Tumble off the tower to the plaza below
These doves, they know the dawn
With them she awoke
Lying still for a long time listening,
Picturing the village dogs
The scarves of the market
The carcasses carved up
And what she might take across

Miriam raise the shade
The orioles return to the trembling ash
Morning has fallen, the moment incarnate
Has paused at the window then passed
Breathing, “I believe I’ll revisit these tender memories...
Draw them deep within my eroded chest
Flesh out the beloved, their scents and their touch,
Speak to them, invite them across.”

Miriam to where’d you disappear?
Your evening nurse arrives with a vial of ease
This bed, but for your night clothes
Is empty for the first time in years
Thirteen stables too lie empty
Slanted light streams in the door
Dust still settling to the floor
While out on the level,
The great plain below heaven
A dust cloud ushers them across

Finally, by the riverside she lies,
Traces etched in clay, take this cup
Mourning doves, they know their song,
On cue they erupt
Sun eclipsed by the horizon,
Eyelids forever closed to tears,
Fallow deer from willow groves appear
Thirteen horses kneel in communion, drink the river
Song of loss, a lone swallow dips, wings a soul across

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from Smash Hits, released October 20, 2020
written by Roger Dean Young
with a line borrowed from Bob Dylan

rdy - vocals, rhythm guitar
cary pratt - drums
chris rippin - lead guitar, vocals
mark beaty - double bass
mark jenkins - pedal steel

Produced by Andrea Orr & Roger Dean Young
Recorded and mixed by Andrea Orr
at The Art Institute burnaby, bc november/december 2007

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Roger Dean Young is a singer-songwriter sprung from the foothills of Alberta and deposited on the West Coast of British Columbia.

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