Panagiota

from Nonesuch River by Chico States

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Panagiota stood beneath the icons her grandmother had saved
when they were fleeing Crete, and all her grandmother feared were the earthquakes again
and when the strung electric lines 'cross his view of the Aegean
he fasted for ten days, moved to the country, dropped some acid cut with Ritalin

And I found an old rope down in the cellar
it was coiled and brown by the lobster traps
and that strong old birch tree that hung out my window
in the Nor'easter it snapped

The sweet annie grows tall by the abandoned narrow gauge railroad tracks
The night they walked across, she kept it to herself but worried about getting back
she took a candle out of her coat pocket and lit it down in the creosote
it flickered and it danced in the cold north wind at their backs
and the black night islands smoked

The mainsail stretched out wide in a broad reach
as the twilight danced away
and the moonshine filled my outstretched hands and stole my thoughts away

it's November now and I don't hear coyotes crying on the dirt road
all the orange leaves fall down and turn to foxes that I see run past on my way home
and now when I sit down by the trestle and the moon light house and the sea
in my right pocket I've a candle and a lighter, in my left an icon of me

"hey, that's no way to say goodbye", she said
I'm not that guy
I don't believe tenderness is weak
but I just can't seem to cry

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from Nonesuch River, released June 27, 2020

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