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The Hermit

from 1993​-​1999 by mud ensemble

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THE HERMIT AT OUTERMOST HOUSE

Sky and sea, horizon-hinged
Tablets of blank blue, couldnt,
clapped shut, flatten this man out.

The great gods, Stone-Head,
Claw-Foot,
Winded by much rock-bumping
And claw-threat realized that.

For what, then, had they endured
Dourly the long hots and colds,
Those old despots, if he sat
Laugh-shaken on his doorsill,
Backbone unbendable as
Timbers of his upright hut?

Hard gods where there,
nothing else.
Still he thumbed out something else.
Thumbed no stony, horny pot,

But a certain meaning green.
He withstood them, that hermit.
Rock-face, crab-claw verged on green.

Gulls mulled in the greenest light.


Sylvia Plath

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from 1993​-​1999, track released April 1, 2011

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