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Ode to the Overflown

from Overflown by Return To Normal

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Ode to the Overflown

This open blue expanse so well I know,
a contrail passes for a compass here.
West by northwest to or from Chicago,
seven minutes overhead, and disappear.
Crazy, happy, dizzy when I dreamed I’d fly,
in a savage, childish mind so restless,
a 727 five miles far,
gleaming engines steaming in a cobalt sky.
The nations and destinations endless,
higher yet above was arcing Telstar.

So when I grew to be a man my fingers
held a ticket, suitcase, and a passport
The flavors of Osaka fed my hungers.
Rain clouds in Death Valley, dust in Freeport.
But still beyond my view lands more remote --
The temple at Knosses on the isle of Crete.
The massif Ahaggar in the Sahara.
The outer Seychelles by a chartered sailboat.
The maui of Rapa Nui, a Bengali street,
Buddha parinirvana at Galvihara.

These places and these faces only waited,
as each working day passed into the next
Bills and deadlines flowing unabated,
until the good and honest life seemed vexed.
An atom in the geometric sprawling --
between the coasts and underneath the radar.
Counted but discounted, trusted and unknown,
once a decade, candidates come calling.
It’s best to typecast millions from afar.
Stranded, shrouded under-clouded, overflown

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from Overflown, released April 30, 2011

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Return to Normal is Corinne and Marty Lucas -- mostly acoustic oriented new folk with a theatrical and storytelling approach, rich tonal blends and a subtle infusion of jazz and soul elements.

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