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The Wheel

from The Mechanism by Mitch Goldwater

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Originally performed in 1995 with the Pittsburgh Poetry and Drum Ensemble, The Wheel, newly revised and recomposed, is part poem, part song, part memory, part imagining--about life and death and rebirth.

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The Wheel

Fairlane, Rambler, this Plymouth
turquoise and Flamingo
busted windows and rust, ditched
by the wheatfield—

rabbits live in the chassis
inside
rot spans the roof, rot spans the roof, inside
rot spans the roof, sit and the seat
breezes warm
wet jalopy air—rustling vetch blooms
fanning through floorboards

This car, a seed,
let it be
scattered,
lifted miles
and let to root,
and we will learn what fuels
the tender shoot to rise
into the light

It's husk
shrivels
already

Open the hood
Water the seed
Drive to the mountains

Let nature
take over
the wheel.

credits

from The Mechanism, track released February 28, 2022
All instruments and voices, words and music: Mitch Goldwater

Thanks to Pittsburgh Poetry and Drum Ensemble--especially Liz Ahl, Rob Casper, Terrance Hayes, and Sharon McDermott. I miss your voices.

Engineered by Will Russel at Electric Wilburland. I learn something from you every time I sit at your mixing board, Will.

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Mitch Goldwater

Mitch Goldwater started stirring syllables and song together as a tot, after he sat agog listening to John Lennon's words "flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup." Mitch went on to study and teach poetry writing (unlike Lennon, who, thankfully, did not). Nowadays he mostly crouches between song & poetry trying to fit the one into the other, right where he thinks they belong. ... more

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