058 What the Grass Once Meant

ARCHIVE #058

What the Grass Once Meant

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Track No. 058

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i used to fall into the grass sky so wide it had no end blades would comb across my palms cool earth breathing through my shirt insects made a lazy hum round my sunwarmed tenyearold head i lay there like i matched the field like nothing small could find my skin back then the world was soft and wide i never feared what lived inside now i stand on the wooden deck watching the wind move through the green what i know has come between my hands and what the grass once meant then came the mat storebought and square foam and rubber cut to fit a careful layer for my skin between me and the grass i trusted now every stem can hide a bite every shade can hold a sting the lawn is trimmed the edges clean still i don't step off the deck they taught me names for every harm and took the field out of my arms now i stand on the wooden deck watching the wind move through the green what i know has come between my hands and everything it meant the blades still bend the way they did my kingdom swaying in the dusk not lost by force but piece by piece to all the things i came to know