Moss Seeking Stone

by jae.ford feat. Amber West

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This is a long awaited collaboration with one of my dear friends from the grade school days. Dr. West is an incredible poet, and I’d encourage you to check out more of her work. Head over to amberiwest.com and show some love.

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lyrics

MOSS SEEKING STONE by Amber West
after Anne Waldman “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
-Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

I’m a green moss woman
I need a black rock man
I need a gray slate man
a stone love man
a steel horse man

My stone-gathering moss
 is my stone gathering moss,
my moss gathering stones.

My moss has gathered many stones
then swore its gathering days were done

Not a hoarse, writhing man
not a horse-riding man
 no pearl necklace man
 not a coarse, fighting man
unless a monster rises
from the lake’s eerie depths

I need a make a wish man
a mashed potato man
 a long eyelash man
 I need a listen, listen man
a butterfly kiss man,

I need a patient, patient man
I mean a Buddha patient man

Slow your stone and come gather my moss

Your stone’s so bare without any moss
Let my moss wrap ‘round your stone
harden to candied shell, protect it,
keep it warm when it snows

In the heat I grow on you
 sun spreads me across you
 I thicken your skin; be my guts 
I will paint you green skin: be my bones

Gather my moss on your stone
 while I gather your stone with my moss

I am the only moss worth your stone’s stop to gather
I am the only moss your stone stops to gather
Roll with me, roll with me 
With me you’ll roll, rock, you stumble more than roll
 Don’t know the meaning of roll
 I’ll smooth you over, make you
 be the wheel you’ve always wanted to be

You’ll roll with me 
roll with me all over you
roll me all over you 
roll me over you
 roll over, wheel, roll on

we’ll roll on

We will roll on...

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released October 27, 2017
Lyrics: Amber West
Production: jae.ford

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