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The Breadth of my Bones

from The Great Giving Up by Ian Miles

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In my just woke up and still tired eyes everyone turned their back and walked away. What had I done in my sleep? Where did I go in my dreams? I clung to what little made sense with shaking hands leaves fittering in the smoke of a forest fire who's flames were the echoes of your voice, that brought me in to life! It flittered hot and bright. An electric whip-crack and I too was disembodied. Like ash I was suspended, almost dancing in the air for a minute at most. The exciting memory of you saying my name played over and over like a tape-loop that my father's father carved into the strains that make me him, and for that moment I knew only you. I found comfort in that chaos, I was crazy and I was calm.
I shifted from solid to gas then from black to orange. I was sleeping in your car. I was startled by the spark, I was running up those stairs that I knew so well that somehow I forgot there was nine and not ten and my foot fell with more weight than I was carrying.

In my just woke up and still tired eyes no one turned their backs to walk away. Not a single quickstep was taken in my offense, I'd done nothing in my sleep but dream I was somewhere else with you. Everything made sense, like volatile and thin plants catch flame and the leaves of the greater trees dance in warmth naturally and with pride. I thanked my fathers for their wisdome. I was shown absolutely and apparently for a minute at most the breadth of my bones and how clearly you were carved across them.

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from The Great Giving Up, released July 1, 2010

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Ian Miles Spokane

Ian Miles is an independent singer-songwriter based out of Spokane, WA.
His Music has been described and "a little cool and a little weird – in a good way" and "very story-telling".
Sometimes mellow and bittersweet; a songbird at your window sill and at other times a thunderous full-throated roar of emotive stomping and hollering like a wild preacher of the end-times!
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