Streetlight and Colorado

from Streetlight and Colorado (& Bonus Live Tracks) by Gray Cox

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They'd been at a conference talking politics all day, finding each other's eyes pulled each other's way.
And after all the meetings were done and everyone else had headed home, they stood in starlight at the door and lingered to talk and look some more.
She was an urban ecofeminist from the East Coast, she said: 'You can call me Streetlight Shadow.' He was a long haired boy from Colorado.
And standing there that night, bathed in starlight, he felt the pull of an impulse to promise: 'Come with me and I will hold you as tenderly as a candle in the night wind.'
And she said: "Don't tell me you're gonna hold me in your hands. I'm not gona go for any of that 'Trust me' crap. But if you come lean with me in the windbreak of this tall tree, we can cup each other's hands to our heads and whisper in the night wind."
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Well the wind blustered up his long hair, it blew prickles in the follicles of her bald head, and they both felt the pull of an impulse to promise: "Come with me and I will hold you as tenderly as a candle in the night wind."
And they each felt the sudden, chilling threat of medieval notions of romance. But they stood their ground in the windbreak of that tall tree and cupped each other's hands to their heads and whispered in the night wind.
They'd been at a conference talking politics all day, finding each other's eyes pulled each other's way.
And after all the meetings were done and everyone else had headed home, they stood in starlight at the door and lingered to talk and whisper some more.

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from Streetlight and Colorado (& Bonus Live Tracks), released October 7, 2015

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Gray Cox Bar Harbor, Maine

Gray is a singer/songwriter who plays bones and guitar. He is a parent, grandparent, Quaker and philosopher. He teaches at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine is a co-founder of the Quaker Institute for the Future, and works on issues of peace and human ecology. His blog, combining music and social commentary is at breathonthewater.com. ... more

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