Name: Vaak First
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: The Poem comes from Kaie Kellough's MAPLE LEAF RAG, and titled "IB". it is also featured on his album VOX VERSUS.

Vaak First

from the intimate sky from whence you came by Kim Zombik

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The Poem comes from Kaie Kellough's MAPLE LEAF RAG, and titled "IB". it is also featured on his album VOX VERSUS.

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I walked upright and thought
Before the idea of Eden spread it’s foliage and flowered into word.
I named the word. My hinged jaw swung open.
Sonic air rolled across my tongue
I swelled the human heart beat with breath,
I dreamed the drum when dawns were dumb and
Not even wheeling ibises had heard of song!

I stretched my skin across the Void
That issues suns, and supernova planets and galaxies
Fierce hawk-headed ebon skinned deities were conceived in my pregnant pulse.

I birthed the pyramids, raised them from the sands of the earth
I conjured magic from the stardust the swirls into solid spheres.
I cast these spheres against the swarth sky and the shattered into constellations, spangled the heavens with myth with mystery

I am the revelation
I surfaced and strode atop the earth
My name is creation
I. am. first.

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from the intimate sky from whence you came, released January 25, 2017
Music: KIM ZOMBIK
Lyrics: KAIE KELLOUGH

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