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Ivory Bones

from West Virginia, My Home by Annick Odom

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by Christine Delphine Hedden

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Casting lots with iv’ry bones
Acorns flowers and old pinecones
You left me here upon the sea
With only angels wings for company

As I look back at that new year
I cannot find a laugh nor tear
All I see is wash’d out white
Lost in manes of mares that reign the night

In the dark I know I was in pain
Thunderstorms of summer rain
Snow and wind upon the trees
Drown’d out cries to God upon my knees

In disbelief that these were wounds
Far too long I hid the ruins
For fear of being held as weak
Silence stole the words that strength would speak

Of late I’ve wonder’d how to heal
All these ruins where once I kneel’d
All these stories left untold
All these iv’ry bones I’ve come to hold

The healer finds me by surprise
Opens up my blinded eyes
Gives me strength that I may see
Yours were the hands that wounded me

My ship returns to my homeland
Where once I pray’d on desert sands
There healing flows from hands I know
Where love is deep, new seeds may grow

I will choose the empty path
Mark’d by neither tear nor laugh
Cast these bones away at sea
Your hands are gone, and I am free!

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from West Virginia, My Home, released May 23, 2019

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Annick Odom Morgantown, West Virginia

Annick Odom is a Belgian-American double bassist and clarinetist. Her ongoing solo project, "West Virginia, My Home," explores the region of Appalachia in the United States through new commissions of pieces inspired by the area and by learning of (sometimes old and sometimes folk) songs from musicians still living in the region. ... more

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