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ARGO

by Nathaniel Parks

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ARGO is, at its core, a reflection on loss and separation filtered through the lens of Caroline Preziosi’s poem of the same name. The text speaks to the loss of something or someone and the reader’s inability to turn back to that thing or to hold on too tightly to its memory. Similarly, the music of ARGO seeks to capture the ever fragmenting, reunifying, and slipping away of a memory as time passes.

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the landscape is made
into windows of the car at the station alone
bronzed with dust and wheat

a penny on the ground counts back
ten years of dying, never
and not afraid of it

passing through the headland
the closed or open window
which is false with nothing outside

this time I
will be Orpheus

white loaded asphalt out of the claim
to go to her in the garden

not walking through smoke
not whipping up dust but rather

the sound of metal falling onto pavement

some but not all
of something

down among dead gods
leaves close at night and again

the girl is held
by plaster palms and again

wheels tire
over dry earth turning back
crumbling
into sand

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released October 4, 2022

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Nathaniel Parks Baltimore, Maryland

Nathaniel Parks is a Baltimore-based composer and singer who seeks to create music that speaks to the painful and confusing parts of being human. His work is often deeply personal and explores themes of place, identity, and loss.

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