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Apparitions of the Young

from Rocky the Clown & Other Follies by David Creese

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Streetlights brighten as twilight falls
Waiting for your father’s call
Bare knees among twisted vines
Cooking smells in fading light.

Reflections on the bedroom wall
The genie pays a fleeting call
You know it’s an illusion
But you willingly go along.

Brother in his bedroom
Builds a crystal radio
The genius of your world
Conjures voices from a stone.

Voices away

You’re told a magpie perches
On the arm of a boy from the neighbourhood
This can’t be true, of all creatures
The magpie is noblest.

Flying away

A dead cat in a vacant block
Flies buzzing, dead eyes open
You don’t want to but you take this vision home
And keep it to yourself.

Quietly closing your bedroom door
You lie face down on the floor
To try to pedal your mind away
From the lonely cat in the lifeless weeds.

Pedal away

These apparitions of the young
These apparitions will never leave you
Through corridors and rooms a torchlight genie
Keeps you safe, enfolds you in her arms and loves you.

Apparitions away

Streetlights away
Torchlight away
Voices away
Flying away

Years away
Streetlights away
Voices away

Years away
Years away
Pedal away

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from Rocky the Clown & Other Follies, released July 31, 2022

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David Creese England, UK

David Creese, founder of The Dumb Earth (Melbourne, Aust. 1993-2006)
and Mysteries (Mel, Aust. 2001- 2005),
drummer for Lizard Train (Adelaide, Aust. 1985-1996),
now occupied with self released albums of songs & narrations and composing music for the films of
Jason Tovey.
Latest album is Rocky the Clown & Other Follies. Spirit Monitors (2021) is a collaboration with Mike Cooper (YSF).
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