Got to sing! And play music last night with dear collaborator Keir Nicholl for the first time in about nine months. Reunion! We had slowly and painstakingly been putting together a set of tunes when bam, this damn global pandemic hit. I feel bad for my professional musician friends; it was hard enough to make a living before Covid.<\/p>\n
We worked to resurrect his evocative urban ballad, The Girl, The City<\/em> and The Last Ping<\/em>, adapted from my poem below. We love folk music and pulled out our version of Down in the Willow Garden\/Rose Connolly<\/em>. Rusty but happy! Perhaps we’ll be able to record and perform in the fall. It will be interesting to see the impact all this isolation has on venues and audiences.<\/p>\n THE LAST PING<\/strong><\/p>\n After the girl is gone, Last seen wearing a blue ski jacket, Fuckin\u2019 A. A teenaged girl can forget Got to sing! And play music last night with dear collaborator Keir Nicholl for the first time in about nine months. Reunion! We had slowly and painstakingly been putting together a set of tunes when bam, this damn global pandemic hit. I feel bad for my professional musician friends; it was hard enough to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlong gone, out of character,
\nstatistical, presumed dead,
\nthe Verifying Department
\nhops to, sniffs out
\nthe revelers, especially
\nthe life of the party,
\nhis liquid engine of beer.
\nAnyone with information,
\nto confirm names and addresses,
\nsubstantiate stories?
\nThey watch your gestures.
\nRead your face.<\/p>\n
\nwhite blouse, black jeans.
\nPhoenix tatto ascending
\nfrom the right hip.
\nBright, unintentional dropout,
\ninadvertently delinquent.
\nBoyfriend person of interest
\naccording to the RCMP.
\nAlways. Constable passes the flyer.
\nHer cell phone may be dead,
\nlast ping traced\u2014pinpointed in fact\u2014
\nto here. Right here. Last known location.
\nRight where we\u2019re standing.
\nThis town. Your pretty little town.<\/p>\n
\nCheck your property,
\nyour shallow ditches.
\nSo petite, she takes up little space
\nin the psyche,
\nturkey vultures lead us
\nnot to her
\nbody but a deer carcass.
\nParents pray
\nto repair the squabbles. Home.
\nLocal kids clam up,
\nweighting the secret with smoke.<\/p>\n
\nshe\u2019s graduated
\nthe fenced-in yards of childhood
\nto this vast plain
\nwhere condoms provide safety,
\nsympathy muttered.
\nShe forgot
\ntownies find transcendence in fury,
\none vaguely recalling
\nEminem shouts,
\na catfight in the backyard.
\nShe looked kinda posh,
\nsmashed-herd fumbling,
\nfawning, pushing. Over. Under.
\nDancing. Sending her sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"