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Button Boots

from Hobgoblin's Hat by Allysen Callery

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5.Button Boots

They whisper with
the heads together
wearing black in the Winter
brown in the Summer

Pomegranates & alabaster
behind a cupped hand
trickled laughter

the great
hooded snake
slithered hither
to taste
the soft place
behind an ankle…

he was soon crushed underfoot,
one of them was wearing
buttoned boots

They’d whisper with
their heads together
stiff as a board
light as a feather

lighting candles with wooden matches
red is the color of desire
green for wealth & blue
communion

If there was a wolf
they didn’t know him

If ever was a bear
they’d never own him

One found a silver mirror
given by an old friend
it was then they’d never
speak again…..

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from Hobgoblin's Hat, released February 14, 2010

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Allysen Callery Rhode Island

" Her lilting voice and heartfelt lyrics are eerily close to the work of the late British songstress Sandy Denny, the highest compliment I could hand down to this brilliant artist."- Paste Magazine

Allysen Callery is a self-taught folk artist from Bristol, Rhode Island. Growing up she was heavily influenced by her parent's British Isles Folk Revival records of the late 60′s early 70′s .
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