Redwing

I was too soon gone away
I should have stayed another day
I had heard that earlier birds make steadier earners
So my heart sank as the bone went snap
Now I’ve fallen into your lap

You nursed me on my way
You kept the hurt at bay
I must be on my way
But part of me will stay

Lapwings aren’t the same as waxwings
Aren’t the same as starlings

Aren’t the same as me
But still I sing
A broken wing’s a broken wing
And the colours don’t mean a thing

You nursed me on my way
You kept the hurt at bay
I must be on my way
But part of me will stay

When I take to flight
It’s like the sky has pulled me up into its heights
Brother on each side
They fly me home

Slime Mould

We are looking for reaction

A million in motion
A body made of fractions
Can’t handle this addiction
Running out of options
Precipitating action
We climb high

We are spreading over highways
Improving on the old ways
We’ll travel on the airwaves
Get ready for the last days
We’re heading for the sunrise
Making sure our mark stays
We climb high

Grow or die
Don’t ask why
Take your own star
Fight or fly
Trying not because it’s easy cos it’s hard

We will choose to grow
the greater good is hanging over all our heads
the sword is swinging and our lives are just beginning
we are free to choose path
and we will build our own hereafter
we will touch the moon and each of us
will soon extend the reach of us.

We don’t answer to a single name
Each of us is different and the same
We are leaving naked as we came

Terra II

I can’t handle a broken thing
It’s like the sky is ready for the last days
I’ve fallen
Out of options
Each of us is leaving
But anyway
Just…

Humpback

Breathe in
Breathe out
The world without
My eye
Meets yours
Withdraw your claws

Don’t leave me gasping for air
I’m done with this breathing
Don’t lead those men to my body
Keep me surrounded

They tore
My side
Before I died
It’s cold
Outside
It sears my hide

Don’t leave me gasping for air
I’m done with this breathing
Don’t lead those men to my body
Keep me surrounded

Shorthorn

I’ve got four hundred million sisters on the outside
One point three billion sisters on the inside
Doesn’t make a prime cut of difference in the end

I’ve got a 1 ton brother with a million lovers
And a body like a slab of stone
Ring through the nose, and a tap on his hose
Grab that boy by the horn
Slit his throat and make some

T bone, Rib roast, Arm pot, Chuck shank
Meat flap, Large end, Short Skirt, Cross flank
Pin bone, Flat bone, wedge bone, foreshank

I’ve got a hoof print as big as a hundred acre fire pit
Gas cloud that’s big as the stuff that keeps your homes lit
Doesn’t give me creamy fresh nothing in the end.
I’ve got a tag brand stoma got a trough that’s full of soma
Keep me standing as you... fist me!
Hand in my side, got a wound gaping wide
Grab the girl by the mammaries
Squeeze me dry and make some

Full fat, Half fat, Sour cream, Creme pat
Ice cream, Skimmed milk, Well fed, House cat
Cream cheese, Creme fraiche, Greased up, Meat vat

Sometimes I have a dream where I can run on open ground
I can feel the wind rush through my ears and in my...
I close my eyes and see my children by my side
I see my children turned to

Boot strap, Handbag, Coin purse, Bike coat
Car seat, Phone case, Horse whip, Banknote
Keyring, Arm chair, Raw hide, Boss tote.

When did I ask you to rear me?
When did I beg you for life?
When did I sign off on your humane
Loving cup abandon as you handle that love-you-like-my-family knife 
I don’t ask you for much
I don’t need no drums or parades
All that I need is the ground at my feet
And the grass that’s in front of me
You make me guilty of this:

Soy field, Heart stop, Gut pain, Pig swill
Dry spell, Freight ship, Dead sea, Road kill
Propane, Methane, Ice melt, Land fill

Terra III

But anyway
we breathe we fight
We take to flight
we climb
I see my children
Surrounded by a million
They keep me standing
Gasping for air

Honey Bee

Can you tell me which way is down? I can tell you which way is down
Can you tell me why the sun is round? Can you tell me why the sun is round?
I can tell you when the day is done, I can tell you when the day is done
And I can dance all night and all day long
Can you dance all night and all day long?
I can dance all night

Can you feel where the river flows? Can you feel where the wind blows?
We can feel all the highs and lows and feel the come and gos
I know what we all know, you know what we all know
And we can feed you up and make you strong
Can you feed me up and make me strong?
We can feed you up

We will, We’ll make you, make you, just what, just what, we want you to be

Something doesn’t feel right, Something doesn’t taste right
Something wrong with our appetite, Something wrong with our appetite
Coming in to our homes at night, Coming in to our homes at night
And the kids are gone before they’re born
kids are gone before they’re born
The kids are gone

Something doesn’t feel right, something doesn’t smell right,
I could try to tell you why, but it’s hard to tell you why
We grow too weak to fly, we’re falling out the sky
And we’ll leave our homes before the dawn
Our homes will die before the dawn
It won’t be long before we

We swarm, we’ll take form, take her, just where, just where, we all are safe from

SARS

Hey you, I’ll take this one

I bring all the worst things through
It’s not me it’s you

I’m never gonna stop

We’re all coming back
We will

We’re not gonna stop
We’re never gonna stop

You can ask us all the questions that you want

Terra IV

Something has gone away
Never coming back
It’s too hard to nurse this wound
Too soon
Your claws
my throat
Raw bone
No coat
I’ll bring all the worst things through
It’s you
It’s you

Arctic Fox

I would change my skin if you would
welcome me back into your arms,
I could turn my eyes to tiny dots on the horizon,
come home, little darling
Oh to think that you would pull me from the ground and then run
You stole it so I’m yours,
my heart.

All I’ve done has faded in your sun,
the life I made is long gone, 
Hard to keep the cold in when you filled the sheet with holes
on day one, little angel
Oh to think that I would treasure all the harm that you’ve done
You broke it now it’s yours,
My heart

Now when I lay me down to sleep
I feel like I can float above the ground
When I take to flight
I can slow the motion down
Sometimes you know I feel
You’ll never come round

Seems you’ll never come round, you’ll never come round
Seems you’ll never come round, you’ll never come round
Now you’re melting me down, you’re melting me down.
Seems you’ll never come round, you’ll never come round.

Tardigrade

Hold up
Cool down
Why are you running like the rest of this crowd?

Dry out, darling
Sleep in
What are you chasing with this energy?

Come on
Turn off
Why are you burning all the things that you love?

Step slow when you’re walking on dreams
All of the homes that you’ve been building
Aren’t as real as they seem
You’ll run but it won't save you
When you’ve flooded the sea
You could be living without water
Live as a slow walker

Pull back
Cold front
You will be buried in the life that you want

What’s left, baby?
Last rites
Why are you bending to this liturgy?

Time comes
Hope goes
We heard you the first time and the answer is no

Terra V

I’m burning all the things that you love
It’s hard to tell you why
Run little darling
It won’t save you
You broke it
Now it’s yours
Heart stop
Kids gone
I’ll take this one

Quaking Aspen

I’ve been alive for a long long time
Growing

A slowly bifurcating kind of mind
Knowing

There are rings in rings
Stop and count these things
Time told

The thing is coming like a big red wall
Looming

Choking, clogging up the ventricles
Blooming

Circles in circles
Round and round

I was the bark and I was the leaves
I am the future and I am the seed
I was the branches and I was the roots
I am the future and I am the shoots
Nothing has changed

Mycelium

You and I are a process
Ever in motion
Never put down

No, this isn’t the ending
There are no boundaries
We’re happening now

You and I are in process
Always in motion
Never die down

No, there won’t be an ending
No form of border
Only… now

You and I asking questions
Ever inquiring
Dying to grow

No, you don’t have the answers
There is no order
Nothing to show

You have so many questions
Ever expanding
Catch what you grow

No, there isn’t an answer
There’s a conclusion
Only… no

You and I can turn inwards
There’s an expansion
Catch yourself free

Now, you’re there where the clouds are,
Ever in oceans
Rain on the sea

You and I can turn downwards
Inward expansion
Set yourself free

Now, fly up where the clouds are,
Deep in the ocean
Only… sea

You can turn to the sunbeams
Onward on airstreams
Settle as snow

Now, fly up as you’re branching
Painless in motion
Miles from home

You can spread on the airstream
Feed on a sunbeam
Fall like the snow

No, this branch has no ending
Ever in motion
Only… home

You and I are in tandem
Always in process
Never come down

No, this isn't the ending
We move to the next thing
We’re happening now

We’re happening now
It’s happening now
It’s happening now
You’re happening now

You and I are a process
Ever in motion
Never put down

No, this isn’t the ending
There are no boundaries
We’re happening now

Only… now

Terra VI

Now that my body is taking to flight
Now that my body is choosing to grow
Now that my body is deep in the sea
Now that my body is cut to the bone
Now that my body is dancing all night
Now that my body is coming back round
Now that my body is pulled from the ground
Now that my body is taking it slow
Now that my body is spreading its seed
Now that my body is miles from home

Nothing has changed