Dark Star

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Mourão, Portugal - August, 1985

(Hasselblad 500 EL/M)

“Dark Star” – Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Dark star crashes
pouring its light
into ashes

Reason tatters
the forces tear loose
from the axis

Searchlight casting
for faults in the
clouds of delusion

Shall we go,
you and I
while we can?
Through
the transitive nightfall of diamonds

Mirror shatters in formless reflections
of matter

Glass hand dissolving
to ice petal flowers
revolving

Lady in velvet
recedes
in the nights of goodbye

Shall we go,
you and I
While we can?
Through
the transitive nightfall
of diamonds

From the album “Live/Dead” by the Grateful Dead (1969)

(And many other recordings by the Grateful Dead)

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