Name: Dusk Love Song
Duration: P00H02M52S
Description: For 2 evenings in a row I watched the sunset turn to dusk and wrote. Those 20 minutes or so are my favourite part of every night/day cycle. My synaesthetic brain went to work, wrapping phrasing to finish a thought with switch-back patterns, against the sonic play of lavender grey and layers of gold.

Dusk Love Song

from 12 Months a Year by Leslie Hudson

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For 2 evenings in a row I watched the sunset turn to dusk and wrote. Those 20 minutes or so are my favourite part of every night/day cycle. My synaesthetic brain went to work, wrapping phrasing to finish a thought with switch-back patterns, against the sonic play of lavender grey and layers of gold.

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Dusk is a purple light
that hangs like a chord that won't
resolve until all of time
dissolves away
resolves to stay still

Love is a fragment of the
whole like the pattern of the
scars that have crissed and crossed
the part of this
the scars have missed yet

Song is a temporary
spell like a touch that cannot
last but it reaches from
the past to hold
the last it told us

Tangerine and lemon creme
All the colours left to dream
Grey as doves and lilac gloves
These are February's loves

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from 12 Months a Year, track released February 21, 2022

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Leslie Hudson Stratford, Ontario

Leslie Hudson is a Canadian singer songwriter and pianist. Their albums range from storytelling styles to bluesy bar rock to dialed-up, full-band homages to pop culture. With lyrical piano skills and a voice that cuts through the crowd, their songs dive deep into archetype and folklore, modernizing ancient voices & shining a spotlight on the shadowy paths we walk through life, myth and media. ... more

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