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The Sunbathers

from Alphabet Rain by Audrey Harrer

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the sunbathers

i stand in the shade with my mother
the sunbathers giggle and glow
i stare at their beautiful bodies
as i sweat in these dark summer clothes

i want to pour it all out like a fishbowl
and burn dry til my fins turn to legs
leave this place and pretend i’m an orphan
and start fresh somewhere oceans away.

i stare in the eyes of a stranger
i see everything there i could want
they project over me like a future
full of beautiful things i forgot

i want to stay with these birds here forever
squeeze the moon so hard that twilight never breaks
build a life in that place just before we look away
and move on with our arms full of waves

now i stand here with all of these people
all these places on all of these shores
the past is so vast and elastic
echoing words swinging doors

i want to sort through every strand like it’s a haystack
find a needle that could stitch a straight line through
but it’s all just noise and polaroids
of sunbathers waving at you...

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from Alphabet Rain, released October 30, 2015

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Audrey Harrer Los Angeles, California

Audrey Harrer is an alt-chamber composer/vocalist/harpist. She looks for clever ways to connect lyric and gesture and is particularly interested in the space where music and drama collide.

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