City love
SoundCloud sampler:
• midnight city | M83 - waiting for a roar / looking at the mutating skyline
• the look | metronomy - this town's the oldest friend of mine
• beat city | the raveonettes - put up a fight and put on a show
• silver city | ghostland observatory - and I think that we have lost ourselves forever more
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There is no city that does not dream
by Anne Michaels
There is no city that does not dream
from its foundations. The lost lake
crumbling in the hands of brickmakers,
the floor of the ravine where light lies broken
with the memory of rivers. All the winters
stored in that geologic
garden. Dinosaurs sleep in the subway
at Bloor and Shaw, a bed of bones
under the rumbling track. The storm
that lit the city with the voltage
of spring, when we were eighteen
on the clean earth. The ferry ride in the rain,
wind wet with the wedding music and everything that
sings in the carbon of stone and bone
like a page of love, wind-lost from a hand, unread.
***
• midnight city | M83 - waiting for a roar / looking at the mutating skyline
• the look | metronomy - this town's the oldest friend of mine
• beat city | the raveonettes - put up a fight and put on a show
• silver city | ghostland observatory - and I think that we have lost ourselves forever more
***
There is no city that does not dream
by Anne Michaels
There is no city that does not dream
from its foundations. The lost lake
crumbling in the hands of brickmakers,
the floor of the ravine where light lies broken
with the memory of rivers. All the winters
stored in that geologic
garden. Dinosaurs sleep in the subway
at Bloor and Shaw, a bed of bones
under the rumbling track. The storm
that lit the city with the voltage
of spring, when we were eighteen
on the clean earth. The ferry ride in the rain,
wind wet with the wedding music and everything that
sings in the carbon of stone and bone
like a page of love, wind-lost from a hand, unread.
***