Collectors Of Invisible Things

by Shimmy Boyle

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1.	Hear Me When I Say This 02:07	buy track
2.	The Way The Dizziness Comes In 03:02	buy track
3.	Melody Of A Rose 04:19	buy track
4.	Love In Two Parts 04:47	buy track
5.	The Children That The Ache Brings 05:29	buy track
6.	Temporary Insanity 01:14	buy track
7.	The Mind Is The Heart's Attic 03:38	buy track
8.	Giraffe Tongues Leave A Lot Of Room For Being Speechless 03:27	buy track
9.	All Those Missing Pieces 03:42	buy track
10.	The Wishing Jar 04:09	buy track
11.	These Rocks Can Read This Water The Way I Can Read A Book 04:24	buy track

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I don't know much about the world. I know there are ships and there are scorpions and there are pineapples. I know there is hunger and there is love. I know we are all walking around trying to figure it out. I am doing my best not to take any of it too seriously. I try to laugh as often as possible. I try to remember that even things I think I know might not be true. I've always been better at feeling than I am at knowing. But feeling is a tricky business. Trusting your feelings is like trusting a storm. I guess I feel like every moment lived is a revelation, and if I am not living in awe, then I am probably forgetting something important. The two best discoveries I have made are my heart and my imagination, and neither of them really belong to me. A lot of the time I feel like standing in front of the ocean and screaming at the top of my lungs. I probably don't do that as much as I ought to, or maybe I do it more than I should. I don't have the answers to these things. Life is a strange place. And even if I don't understand it, I feel pretty lucky to be here. I have known and loved a whole bunch of spectacular humans along the way, and I hope I get to know and love more. These poems are various stabs I have taken at deciphering the shifting phantasmagoria I've encountered in the brief tenure of my existence, and with any luck, they will make some kind of sense to somebody,

maybe you.

Shimmy Boyle
Oakland, California,
May, 2010.

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released June 21, 2010

Artwork by Orian Lathrop. (orianlathrop.com)
Huge thanks to Logan Jensen, Theo Grondahl, Brent Crosson.

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