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Naked Arms

from Cold Seasons by Stevenson Valentor

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NAKED ARMS

Into her naked arms
I’ll be when Winter
Comes scaring Heat,

So it comes up to us to
Produce Warmth.

It is the absence
That promotes creation.
It is our rage to retaliate,
Unknowingly fine-tuning the tension,
Tweaking into the balance,
Seeping into the balance
Between (in) extremes.

Into her naked arms may be
Where I have belonged – but only
For a night or so…

My place, I’m so worried of finding, cannot be nor stay –
It exists by the ever-fleeting moment

I will not and cannot sit and be comfy, for this
Water body also flows – and thus to sit is nearly
The same as fighting the current – as I am.

Into her naked arms –
They may as well be as dead as the yellow, purplish
Cadavers so dissected by my classmates.

It may be my place, into the naked arms of a heavy corpse –

Always incomplete,
Always improving;

And therefore,

You could have done a better job.

But you can’t learn
How to make it better
w/o trying, and trying hard first.
You have to find out
how much you suck,
Always -

And so I let these words sit
And I feverishly toss heavy blankets
On my affection and impulses

To more closely resemble that languid
Queen I so frivolously worshipped, oh-but
Never in Friver!

Always growing, always incomplete.

I cannot regret my place now,
Nor fret for its discovery by me.

My place is never grounded,
My place is the same

As yours:

In that space

Between (in) waves


Between (in) words



Between (in) neurons



Between (in) synapses



Between (in) breaths



Between (in) toes


Between (in) arms

Our (in) arms

Naked (arms) Naked

In (to) In

Her (in) He

Naked (arms) Naked

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from Cold Seasons, released January 6, 2018

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Stevenson Valentor Chicago, Illinois

Stevenson Valentor is an innovative drummer and pianist on the Chicago jazz and funk scenes. His affiliated groups, Bassel & The Supernaturals, Gramps The Vamp perform nationally and have several albums to their names. He leads 2 original projects, Here & Now (jazz quintet), and Cold Seasons (solo piano) which showcase Stevenson's sensitive composing abilities. ... more

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