Track Insight / Lyrics
You buff the welt with horsehair brush at dawn
Tallow scent rises, deeply drawn
Aloysia wrightii leans to porch light
Lemon verbena cuts leather night
Your knife traces grain on vamp and quarter
Opuntia spines guard the desert border
Soles wait in rows like rooted cuttings
Each stitch a node where new growth is budding
Santa Fe wind blows through the veranda screen
You speak in binomial, calm and clean
Leather drinks oil like xylem drinks the rain
Sole and sage root in the same domain
Awl punches holes where median nerves run
Beneath Prosopis glandulosa sun
Thread pulls tight, a vascular embrace
Mesquite and hide share the same grace
Santa Fe wind blows through the veranda screen
You speak in binomial, calm and clean
Leather drinks oil like xylem drinks the rain
Sole and sage root in the same domain
Night blooms Cereus, white trumpets unfold
Stories of wear in the leather told
Dawn breaks cold on the Sangre range
Your hands know every scar and change
Heel stacks rise like caudex in the dust
Each layer numbered, labeled, just
As you would tag a herbarium sheet
With genus, species, place, and date complete
The last coat shines, a cuticle of wax
Artemisia tridentata guards the cracks
You set the pair where morning light can reach
Roots and soles alike need time to breach
Santa Fe wind blows through the veranda screen
You speak in binomial, calm and clean
Leather drinks oil like xylem drinks the rain
Sole and sage root in the same domain
Sole and sage root in the same domain
Brush rests on the bench, the work is done
Another day begins beneath the sun
