"Monumental Drift"
Iron bone.
Cinder skin. Turn the spindle.
(click) Breathe the rust.
Five steps on the salt floor.
Three
and two.
Weft and warp.
Cold gear in the marrow.
(one,
two,
three)
(one,
two)
Two. Two.
Three. Count the needle.
Strike the anvil.
Cold iron.
Cold blood. Two.
Two.
Three.
Turn the
spindle again.
Three and three.
Loom in the dark.
Breath on the blade.
(tick tick tick) No dawn here.
Only the hammer.
Only the stone.
Salt. Iron.
Two. Two.
Three.
Turn the machine. (spindle)
(spindle) Cut the thread.
Cold gear sleeps. (shhh)