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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - I See Everything
- 8
La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
- 9
La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
- 24
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
- 28
La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
- 29
La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
- 30
La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
- 31
La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
- 32
La Dispute - Five
- 33
La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Four
- 36
La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 37
La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
- 38
La Dispute - Nine
- 39
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 40
La Dispute - Said the King To the River
- 41
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 42
La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
- 43
La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
- 45
La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 46
La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
- 47
La Dispute - A
- 48
La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
- 49
La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
- 50
La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
- 51
La Dispute - Damaged Goods
- 52
La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
- 56
La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
- 57
La Dispute - Fairmount
- 58
La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
- 59
La Dispute - Future Wars
- 60
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
- 61
La Dispute - How I Feel
- 62
La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
- 63
La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
- 64
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 65
La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
- 66
La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 67
La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 69
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 70
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 71
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 72
La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
- 73
La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
- 74
La Dispute - Six
- 75
La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 76
La Dispute - Steve
- 77
La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 78
La Dispute - Ten
- 79
La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 80
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
- 81
La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
- 82
La Dispute - Three
- 83
La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
- 84
La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
- 86
La Dispute - Untitled
- 87
La Dispute - You Ascendant
- 88
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 89
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
- 90
La Dispute - The Field
The Field
La Dispute
Followed older brother's footsteps
Through the thick brush in behind him slow
Approaching where the forest broke
Saw him standing at the tree line
Hunter orange distorted in the boughs of pines
Between us in the woods
Where I stood now in my hand-me-downs in the cold
The same ones my uncle wore
In that framed page from the press
Both of them up north
Above dad's desk
A couple years after their father's death
And his brother left
Stood and watched him scan the open field with his rifle scope
About a mile deep
Twice as wide at least
Where we could see
Military netting draped across the canopy of trees
Tried to keep up where he walked on
There appeared to be some compound
On the far side of the clear-cut
We knew the rumors of militia grounds in the north
Heard on our radios
Locals poaching does talk in voices down
By the bait piles on the ridge
And father waited patient, eyeing deer sign from his blind by the lake
And I, on the other side of it
Kept on walking through the field
To find my brother standing posed with his gaze locked
In the ground down in a pit
Scattered with carcasses
Skin on their bones dried
Skulls sawed for the antlers of the dead
Like some portal to nowhere now
For forever and no time I watched
Trancelike with the vultures overhead
Heard his boots in the grass again
The fading of footsteps away
Knew he was walking off
To the compound up ahead
And I knew I had to break from the trance
Follow fast in that direction
Or I'd never find a way to close the gap
That if I stared down in the corpses there, transfixed
He would go that way forever
And I would stay here
Staring downward
And I did
