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Horse Latitudes

from Tanglefoot by RB Lonetree

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I awoke delirious from a restless sleep
The air hung heavy in the tropical heat

The dawning sky, a supernatural red
Scarlet where the moon-light bled

Stained a sea becalmed like molten lead
The sails lay loose and the flags hung dead

The weird light deepened in the dawning sky
I looked hard into the sun, into its terrible eye

As it surged from the sea and rose into the gloom
It threw such a strange light as might precede a Simoom

I felt a presage of doom. My soul filled with dread
But the sea stayed placid and the air stayed dead

Horse latitudes had a hold on me
The breathless air and the drunken sea

The captain ordered the horses pushed over the side
But they swam! How they swam, though they should have died

Somehow they reached an unseen shore
Where a tribe gathered and marvelled at what they saw

Such strange beasts they'd never known before
Swam into their world and changed it forevermore

A noble kinship between them grew
It's an old one now and I'm old too

For that sea finally awoke and that wind finally blew
I alone survived the storm of all the crew

I followed the horses into the blue
Out of the old world and into the new

Horse latitudes had a hold on me
The breathless air and the drunken sea

Now me and Kardiono ride along the shore
Here in the outer islands where the white men come no more

Too much for them to bear, the malarial air
In these lost latitudes, west of nowhere

But I can feel their disease, even from here
Yeah I can feel their disease, smell their fear

The elders tell the history
How the horses came one day from out of the sea

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from Tanglefoot, track released January 1, 2008
Fairley/Lonetree

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RB Lonetree Nimbin, Australia

RB Lonetree, is a singer/song-writer, recording and performing musician. He also writes and publishes poetry, short stories and political essays.

RB Lonetree lives on a large farm with his partner and two children in Bunjalung country, near the town of Nimbin, on the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia. ... more

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