speak to ghosts

from Sorrow by Ian Hackett Kahl

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In the woods light shy away. Grow in a moss green living loss. Inside the way grief play. Turns out it's much easier to speak to ghosts of the dead than the living. It comes from carrying belief for all these days. Belief that the living are the ones that are listening. It breaks your heart in a new way every day. And though I may understand slow are steps that press course in the sand.
The heart's a box not a landscape. And I know this now. It's why we plead our whole lives for the key. And when the trees bend to shape the sea. They hold on to you and me. In what do we trust? If we're the ones that made it. If those who loved us most never return. In who do we trust? If we're the ones that make it. If those who love us most never return.

(There is a sound caught between us, one that lived in the ocean too. There is a way to attune to blue if only we need it not say anything. It leads us into togetherness. It tells us and keeps on telling it. There is a sound caught between us, one that lived in the ocean too.)

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from Sorrow, released March 6, 2020

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Ian Hackett Kahl Berkeley, California

Ian Hackett Kahl is a solo indie/syth-pop artist, formerly a member of the bands PEN, and TIN RIBBONS

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