1.PASTEL HOUSES

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1. Pastel Houses
I had a dream once,
we had a house out by the beach.
It was cold, and you were wet.
You shivered silver steam.

Like any morning I could feel-
The air try to steal my breath.
And crush it with her heel.

You helped me breathe
a pair of swans-
"They mate for life, and wear white dresses just like mine"

You were so pale, and I liked beautiful girls that looked strung out but weren't.
I liked roughed spines, and loved sunken eyes. I could stand in these soaking wet shores until they crystallize.

I had so many confessions to make, and I still do. Things I'd drank in my coffee, and others I drowned in booze. Observant, as dog, whose master who has food. The things you have filled me with, have emptied me too.

It's about good old fashioned love letters-
my sickness, those secret feathers.
It's about our bodies-
The push and pull.
About your body heat while mine retreats.
It's about the bends and folds-
And our homemade recipes.

We cast each other's names in glass-shattering distortion.
I have burnt my very tongue-
Keeping my soul warm for your return.

It's about the wicks that we burned out, or blew.
Hills divided by waterfalls, vineyards, and cabins.
It's about the trunk full of letters, in your room.

It's about badlands.
It's about your lonely shaking hands.
California sunsets,
And ankles shackled by our pants.

It's about the past. A past that still hasn't stopped shaking.
A past that can still hear your voice when I don't feel like talking.
And I can still feel you fill me like a living room that was only ever meant to be a set.
So who's house am I still haunting.

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from PASTEL HOUSES (LP2), released October 25, 2016
Archeress is an Audio/visual/writing project.
And we present - Pastel Houses.
Jason Quinton Horras - Courtney Jade Durbin - Travis Scudder.

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