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The Myth

It is easy to remember palm trees
flying past in the dark of night, but not
what they looked like. Their fingers
must have reached to us, grasping
for a chance to be mobile, on the move,
like we always were.

“They” is a better word, since
most of my time passed by within the confines
of a pair of ear-sized speakers.

I opened Pandora’s box
for hours on end each night, allowing
sonic truths to float through my brain, while palm trees
raced after my friends.

My memories are holograms.

I disagree with the myth.

I wanted to combust.

I still disagree with the myth.

I often dreamed of a stage
lit with pillars of fire and light-beams
of heavenly strength shining upon me.
I could never see the rest of the band
in my holograms. The palm trees continued to grasp
for a chance at movement; they waved gently
outside my window, beyond the worn pane of glass
and the checkerboard of the screen,
begging me to include them
in my dreams of fame and fire.

I imagined myself sitting upon a miniature throne
in the back seat of a metal carriage, while each of my advisers
commented on the oppressiveness of the night air.

I imagined myself seeping through the cracks
in the hardwood floor – as if it were bad concrete
with weak aggregate – of my bedroom,
taking Pandora’s box with me, and delivering
bits of truth to the curved fingers of each tree
while sliding through chlorophyll-saturated veins.

I have been reaching for them ever since, trying to find
the truth in the myth
of adolescence.

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from House of Hummingbirds, released September 26, 2017
Written by Evan Zegiel. Performed by Nelson Gast, Ben Harmsen, and Evan Zegiel.

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House of Hummingbirds Ann Arbor, Michigan

House of Hummingbirds exists to burn through the artifice of the digital age and reconnect with the beauty of human emotions.

Evan Zegiel has been writing poetry and lyrics for years. He is primarily an orchestral tuba player, but has been playing bass and electric guitar for about the same amount of time. Merging those skills resulted in the birth of House of Hummingbirds. ... more

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