The Dig
On a clear and moonless night
Tunneling:
Down Down Down
No light in sight
Following her snout
Like a beacon
Glowing and Growing
Earthen essence
Barium, Cadmium, Copper,
Iron and Manganese
Thunk! What the?
Metallic, Brassy, Slick
Bullet casing encrusted
Just keep Digging Digging Digging
Bonk!
Oily, Pitted, Smooth
Golf ball
Really?
Keep going…
Flipper-like paws
Powerful forelimbs
Sightless, flinging dirt
Smells in stereo
Driving her forward
Towards the glowing
Bioluminscence
On the hunt…
Smoosh…
Soft, Blubbery, Juicy
At last….
Earthworm wriggling?
Chunky glowing grub
Flailing like a wrapped mummy?
Chomp Chomp Chomp
Fat, Happy and Full
Life of a Mole
On a clear and moonless night
About the Creator
Cathy Schieffelin
Writing is breath for me. Travel and curiosity contribute to my daily writing life. My first novel, The Call, is available at www.wildflowerspress.com or Amazon. Coming soon: Snakeroot and Cohosh.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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