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Hilary Downes - Wilderness Is Home

from MAPPING MANHATTAN by Becky Cooper by The Bushwick Book Club

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Wilderness Is Home

Eyes fixed on this island
Sparkles in the night
Refuge from the waters
Cradles and reflects the light

We make it up together
This, our treasured stone
Floats between two rivers
Where we swim alone

This island is a legend
This island I’d like to know
This island is a wilderness
And the wilderness is home
Is home
Is home

I’ve tried my best to find you
No surveyor could outline you
I’m lost and you’re hard to navigate
I just watch and wait
and wait

A blank map for a new dream
From your river you emerge
Climb upon this diamond iceberg
Before the tidal surge

This island maps can’t capture
Not sure it can be known
I’m lost in its wilderness
But the wilderness is home
It’s home
It’s home

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from MAPPING MANHATTAN by Becky Cooper, released June 21, 2013

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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