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Constellations and Headstones

from In The Lonely by drummis

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Moment 171: Constellations and Headstones

Then she came back for an evening. The day had been warm, too warm—a false spring or a kind of tragedy before winter, a reminder of what you’ll be missing in just a few days. By the time she arrived, it was already early evening but full dark, with a breeze that had sent all the stars up across the sky and all the clouds blowing out past the space between constellations and rooftops. One night with a moon, not too long ago, you told yourself this was the kind of picture you wanted to walk through. So you took her out into the neighborhood and down the way, walked her through dark streets and past bright houses, staring through windows at empty lit rooms and sudden, perfectly still homeowners, each satisfied with his or her own complete house. You walked her down a trail made of old train tracks and were reminded of an abandoned subway station, though there was no graffiti here, no limitless black, just the breeze and a border of trees and the slow talk that comes out at such times. You walked her along a golf course and into the little cemetery near there, where the two of you lay amid the headstones and watched the sky and told what the clouds had to say to the stars. You picked out shapes. You daydreamed secretly of each other. It was a good night. It was an almost relationship. The clouds came in fast and heavy then, and you hurried back to your apartment, laughing, eager for that ever kissing and clutching necessity.

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from In The Lonely, released July 9, 2015

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drummIs is an improvisational electronic musician. Most of what you hear on this site is played live in one track. Tools include the trapKAT MIDI controller, TD-5 drum brain, electric bass guitar, the RC-50 Looper, ME-25 effects, guitars, an iPad with too many apps, and a squeaky octopus. Located in upstate New York, he goes by Kurt Reymers, and is otherwise occupied as a professor of sociology. ... more

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