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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
- 2
La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
- 3
La Dispute - Andria
- 4
La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Six
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
- 27
La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
- 28
La Dispute - Future Wars
- 29
La Dispute - I See Everything
- 30
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 31
La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
- 32
La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 35
La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 37
La Dispute - The Field
- 38
La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
- 39
La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
- 41
La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Departure
- 43
La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
- 47
La Dispute - Fairmount
- 48
La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
- 49
La Dispute - Four
- 50
La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
- 52
La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Nine
- 54
La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 55
La Dispute - One
- 56
La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
- 57
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 58
La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
- 59
La Dispute - Ten
- 60
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
- 61
La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
- 62
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
- 63
La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
- 64
La Dispute - Three
- 65
La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
- 66
La Dispute - Twelve
- 67
La Dispute - Two
- 68
La Dispute - Untitled
- 69
La Dispute - 35
- 70
La Dispute - A Poem
- 71
La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
- 72
La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
- 75
La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
- 77
La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
- 78
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
- 79
La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 80
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 81
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
- 82
La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 83
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 84
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
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La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 87
La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 89
La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
- 90
La Dispute - You Ascendant
Only Everything Below
La Dispute
don't believe your ears nor trust your mouth
i think that every feeble doubt-soaked promise of trust
had a mind to leave you out in the rain
with your hands to the train tracks,
pulling the ropes with your teeth but you're too weak
and you're too tired, child,
lay down--i will tear every ghost from your dream
(oh king, you've stepped on the wrong crack)
rejoice! it is beating still
still strong. still thundering onward.
it turns it's palm up, lifts it's voice up, speaks, says,
"i don't know."
he speaks with the speed in the clench of a bear trap,
softly rebuilding the castles he'd kept. says,
"there is grace in a steeple collapsing."
straightens the sheets on the bed where they'd slept
thinking his love was as passive as flowers
planted in a garden of lies in her chest
says, "there is grace in a steeple collapsing"
pointing the calm in his eyes to the west.
to valinor! where love was sent on airplane wings
to shake and be shaken.
still, the flowers open as she passes, and the birds they sing to greet her
though she heaves blood.
though she heaves blood.
though she heaves blood.
though she -
though she -
though she heaves blood!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
oh, there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsed.
collapsing!
collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing.
there is grace in a steeple collapsing.
and he said "boy get your things together,
make them wood and make them stone,
and we'll build you a house.
there isn't ever any shelter anymore."
