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Russian Dolls

from The Glassy Mountain by Sophie Ramsay

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Those days we had as winter came
Each day was more enclosed in night:
Than that before, like Russian dolls,
When we would walk, out in the streets,
The tock, tock, tock of our feet
And we replete, and we alight.

And we would drink wine, kitchen dance,
Your deft hands turning fish in pans
Your kind hands, our soft caresses,
A myriad exultant kisses.
The sky was moon-ripe, luminary
Sempiternal, promisary.

These days winter walks its paces
Damply in the leaf-left spaces
Nuts and seeds, our bird oblations
My grandmother's incantations,
And I make soup and bake bread
And feel the night slip overhead.

And love of mine, I see you still
I wish you saw the ocean swell
Of crows flown out to herald night,
I wish you heard the feather beat,
Euphoric squawk: a skein of geese
Come quick and sleek over the house.

And love of mine, you never meant
To leave me like this, so despondent
And love of mine, I must go out
Go out by clear-called owl invite
Out of the tomb-black dark of my room
Into the moon-slack night.

Those days we had as winter came
Each day was more enclosed in night:
Than that before, like Russian dolls,
When we would walk, out in the streets,
The tock, tock, tock of our feet
The tock, tock, tock of our feet
The tock, tock, tock of our feet
And we replete, and we alight.

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from The Glassy Mountain, released November 2, 2013

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Sophie Ramsay sings old and new folk: songs from her native Scotland alongside originals with poetic lyrics. ‘The Glassy Mountain' (2013): ‘undeniably beautiful’ (fRoots), 'Joanna Newsom meets Belle and Sebastian' (R2). ‘The Seas Between Us’ (2016): 'Atmospheric, elegant and beguiling.' (Songlines). ‘Deeply moving’ (fRoots). Sophie tours regularly with cellist singer Sarah Smout. ... more

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