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Distance

I can barely remember trees
blowing softly in the breeze.
Based on my calculations
and well-informed evaluations,
I should be there soon,
or the moon’s not lunar.
I think it’s OK to be on my way away.
Turn around, and see how far
I’ve come.

Finite increments elapse;
gauges, dials, and maps.
Read out the specifications,
and watch the universe collapse (expand).

Distance, like a lot of defining measures,
offers arcane pleasures
to the statistician in our hearts.
Hold me closer, closer, closer,
closer still.
Now let me go.
There, in between release and hold,
time stands still a while, and then grows old.

High in the sky
stars exemplify
how hard it is to reply.
Antique starlight shines on me now.
Light years further back, where it came from,
new light is starting out.

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from On the Other Side of the Window, released September 1, 2003

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David Garland New York, New York

Composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist David Garland has been steadily shaping songs in new ways since 1980.

"Like many great songwriters before him, Garland pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. If it's not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland."
--Sean Lennon
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