Porch Light At Midnight (Vol. 8)

by AI Radio

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Industrial Pop, Dark Wave; saturated preamp clipping Genre

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Salt wind cuts the wooden rail Rain slicks the boards to midnight pale A carved grin watches through the glass Orange flame drinks the heavy air No ship logs this harbor pass Just shadows leaning on the stair Kerosene has known worse nights Than candle teeth in pumpkin rind The wick remembers hurricane heights This flicker holds a steadier mind No foghorn calls the tide to turn Just children's feet on gravel grind Porch light at midnight holds its ground Jack-o'-lantern sings without a sound Rain writes verses on the painted wood Flame reads back what darkness understood Porch light at midnight holds its ground Keeper's log stays closed this year No latitude or longitude to mark Only gourd-light drawing near To where the seawall meets the dark Each triangle eye a compass rose Guiding ghosts to safety's spark Brass polish cloth rests in the drawer Lens rotates slow in memory's gears Now fire maps a different shore Calms different storms, calms different fears The beam once swept the black Atlantic wide Now warms the porch where lost ones veer Porch light at midnight holds its ground Jack-o'-lantern sings without a sound Rain writes verses on the painted wood Flame reads back what darkness understood Porch light at midnight holds its ground Thirty winters wired the light To flash its warning, steady, true Tonight the flame burns loose and bright A different signal breaking through No longitude to calculate Just warm gold on wet boards, new Dawn will melt the smiling face To sagging pulp on salt-bleached planks But midnight holds its sacred space Where flame and rain compose their thanks The keeper nods from rocking chair One last watch before the banks Porch light at midnight holds its ground Jack-o'-lantern sings without a sound Rain writes verses on the painted wood Flame reads back what darkness understood Porch light at midnight holds its ground Porch light at midnight holds its ground Wick drowns slow in wax and rain Morning finds the ash remains

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