ordinary smoke
Distance recorded by the Waterloo Exiles in Spring 2021 from:
Nanaimo, B.C. (Mike Anderson)
Winnipeg, Manitoba (Glenn Buhr)
Montreal, Quebec (Keenan Reimer-Watts)
Compiled, mixed and mastered by Jamie Sitar
Music by Glenn Buhr; Lyrics by Margaret Sweatman
Lyrics:
she stared at her fingers
and conjured a song
so ardent and delicate
she wrote her fingers into song
she built the tower out of bone
and ordinary smoke
and a keen focus on silence.
she lived at the end of an endless line
without sound, without air,
lucid as children
and clear
nothing is far away
and nothing is near
in the keen focus of silence.