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Forgotten Portraits

from Forgotten Portraits by NadNavillus

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This song was composed around the words of Janine Solursh, as sourced from Poetry Magazine February 2021 issue, "The Practice of Freedom" Volume 217, Number 5.

Magazine cover art by Damon Locks; guest edited by Joshua Bennett, Tara Betts, and Sarah Ross.

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Suddenly nobody knows where you are.
You’re just a memory,
an echo,
an idea thin as smoke.
Your last text, call, letter, Facebook post—
only footprints in the surf.
Your edges blur and you become
a friend’s story,
a lover’s history.

Initially, you beat against the panes in set-aside frames
begging to be taken out
and rolled into motion once more.
But after a second winter,
then a third, and fourth,
there comes something serene and warm
behind the haze that smokes the broken hourglass.
Something new
and just for you.
This world belongs to you and yours
and when you glance back and recall your life’s movement
with a sigh of days gone by,
you are irrevocably comforted
having become that final exhale
that hangs in the air after the passing.
You pose
and hold it.

We are all the dead.
I am not apart from you for long,
except for breath,
except for everything.

credits

from Forgotten Portraits, released June 9, 2023
Words by Janine Solursh
Dan Sullivan: guitar, vocals; Rob Bochnik: percussion; Andy Hall: drums; Chad Kouri: tenor saxophone, percussion
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Brok Mende at Friends of Friends Recording

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NadNavillus Chicago, Illinois

Equal parts guitar and vocal driven, sonically and structurally diverse, Nad Navillus is the music of Dan Sullivan.

Two releases on Jagjaguwar "Show Your Face" (JAG037) and "Iron Night" (051) proceed the latest album "Forgotten Portraits". ... more

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