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The Climb

from Night Phlox by Starlings

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The atmosphere is impaled
On a hundred rising spires
Feet are slipping on sweaty backs
To reach our future stars

Chrome ferns uncurling
Cranes extend like cracks in ice
From the weight of an impatient skater
From the weight of an unfinished plate
From the weight on me

Marble faces gaze
Down the coterie of G-d
Fires burst in the blink of
An alabaster eye

The parachute is circling
Keeps our creeping safe from rain
From the weight of nauseous lakes
From the weight of stratospheric slate
From the weight on me

Lurching and grasping at ankles and thread
I’m blooming and shaking as I labor to shed
All this weight on me

The atmosphere is impaled
On a thousand struggling spires
Thighs are gripping on mangled jaws
To reach the next rung

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from Night Phlox, released November 18, 2022

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Starlings Somerville, Massachusetts

Starlings are a three piece theatrical rock band. Former The Sinister Turns members Susan Putnins + Dan Thorn join with Benjamin Bakman to bring dynamics, quirk, heart and heaviness to their music.

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