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Stand in the shadow of tamarack thicket you’ll see what I mean
by Delirium dance. Golden conifer clumps pepper this swamp.
Reeds and fungus thick with life, microbial heat can melt the ice.

You are the reason I return there, not believing till I bathe
in that mud. Return the blood of primordial gunk.
I promise you: No amount of asphalt or glass can redeem
the junk you keep behind the bathroom cupboard
where even the flies won’t dance.
Even the dogs cower from your collection,
your bottles of pills, enhancers, shots, and plastic necromancers.
Come with me and dance in the goop.
Cattails erect on reeds, islands form sacred hoop.

Oxbow bent backwards--not prescription or vision, no healing incision--stand with me now in the shadow of tamaracks.
Rip the cattail up from root.
Feast with me now on primordial goop.

This is where the dogs play, the flies dance,
toads sing, and cranes romance.
This is the place I was telling you.
I was raised where pine needles drop and water won’t freeze.

**Who, me?**

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from The Way The Hook Bends, released April 15, 2015

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Tyler Dettloff Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Musician and poet from the swampy Delirium Wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Tyler performs and records with Lost Dog Records.

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