Moon Lemon Tangle

Single by Brendan Bonsack

the echocardiogram

does make a sound

but you can't hear it

in the deep sea

a hard shell will save you

except from the octopus

if you will not break

they will drill you a tiny hole

soften you with a poison

examine the shells you've found

along the shore: not every one

but any one will have such holes

have you ever lost to love?

an echo detects the change

your broken heart assumes the shape

of takotsubo:

the old ceramic traps

crafted and lowered by human hands

for catching octopus

no bait is required

no noose to tighten, they

just climb inside

believing their bodies

must be made for these curious places

suspended and utterly held

it is possible to live like this

with your bloated ventricle left wondering

could it be fatal?

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/takotsubo-syndrome


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

Radio Ghosts

Oh, Firefly

Afterlife

Reservoir Bicycles

Pea-green Sea Boat

The Truth About Birds

Picnic Ground

Runaway Sparrow

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/static-of-crows


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

The Lodger Returned

Someday Maybe Someday

Best Laid Scheme

Speaking with the Fishes

The Party Next Door

Crash in Yellow

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/the-lodger


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

Porch Light

Three Horn Face

Tide

Tracing

Stegosaurus

Old Lovers Lane

Election Night Nana

Light Pollution

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/favourite-dinosaur


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EP by Brendan Bonsack

Waterless Deep End

Google and The Bomb

That Bridge

Oh Hansel Dear

When the King Falls

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/silence-in-the-library


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

Picking the Stitches (of a year that was)

Can't Fall Any Further

Nana Europa

A Penny Sonata

If You Should Find Your Key

Those Three Words

Graveyard Tale

A-tishoo A-tishoo

Smoke That Keeps the Fire

100 Days

I Prefer the Arrow

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/iso-haircut


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

Mystery.History.Science.Romance

Age of Stone (Part V)

Empire Down

Aneurysm

Cherry Wine

Twist in Your Tree

Quiz Show Lovers

The Bus that Kills Me

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/the-orbit-of-your-breathing


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

Not Leaning, Not reaching

After the Bee

What Should We Tell the Kids?

Out There Breaching Quarantine

I Wish I Could Tell you

Closing My Eyes on the Up Escalator

A Natural Selection

Their Joy

Everybody Hungers (2020)

Tell Me About the Revolution

Sing for You

When Fever Comes

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/i-dont-remember-the-future


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EP by Brendan Bonsack

Runaway

Last Exit

I Once Knew a Doctor

Danny Boy

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/specks-on-a-map


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

A compilation of previously released singles, 2013-2020.

Henry Lee

For Everything Else There is Song

1992

Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)

What I Like About the Sun

On the Beaches

The Future's Forgotten Our Names

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/oddities


© Brendan Bonsack 2020