Giant Steps

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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Music:
Ned Mudd
Bewild

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Giant Steps

—for fallen friends

There’s an iron heart ringing
on an anvil this morning.
There’s the blacksmith stoking his forge.
No iron will turn till it’s hot;
no sorrow will end till it’s gorged.
Callous fingers drum blunt
on a wood tabletop as years drop
like coins to the floor.

Magic beans cost a cow, cost a heart, cost a penny,
there is no sorrow won’t burn.

The giant has fallen; the stalk has been cut
that led to treasures above.
The princess chose another. The witch turned not.
I’m alive and lacking for love.

Magic beans cost a cow, cost a heart, cost a penny,
there is no sorrow won’t burn.

Giants trip as mortals do. Gods fall flat from untied shoes.
Rugs bunch up. There are patches of ice,
uneven stairs, too dim lights.
If sleeping dogs lie, there is no truth.
This night is darker for lack of you.

Magic beans cost a cow, cost a heart, cost a penny,
there is no sorrow won’t burn.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022
Music:
Ned Mudd
Bewild

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.