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The Warp And The Weft

from The Warp And The Weft by Thaddeus Spae

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The eldest of elderly women
weaving the world on her loom
running the thread on the shuttle
sorting the gleam and the gloom
the light and the dark
the slag and the spark
the cliff and the cleft
the warp and the weft

The wizard in back of the curtain
pulling the levers and strings
moving the pawns on the chessboard
people and prices and things
the take and the trade
the point and the blade
the hilt and the heft
the warp and the weft

The white coated mathematician
tracing events on a graph
x's and y's in concordance
singing like notes on a staff
the quarters of space
the time and the place
the right and the left
the warp and the weft

But the sights can't target the sign
and the lesson's too simple to learn
and the letters slip off of the line
and so we return to

The eldest of elderly women
plaiting the fates in her hair
stringing the stars for a necklace
her weaving is ready to wear
the moon and the sun
the lost and the won
the gauche and the deft
the warp and the weft

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from The Warp And The Weft, released August 15, 2011

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Thaddeus Spae Seattle, Washington

A 40-year veteran of the Folk Wars, Thaddeus Spae has played venues from Tipitina's to the EMP. He's an award-winning songwriter whose works range from quirky to literate, guardedly sentimental to outraged and sarcastic, performed on a panoply of instruments acoustic and electric, in a profligate variety of styles encompassing folk, hard rock, jazz, blues, electronic and more. Website: tspae.com. ... more

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