Arboretum from angel by e.s. hughes

Tracklist

5.	Arboretum	2:40

Lyrics

you’re gonna age like a banksia
and you’d tell me to fuck off if i ever bought your roses

you’ll grow withered and grey
your beauty changing
spitting in the face of the notion of fading

transformation
not disintegration
you alongside me
inosculation

and steadily we’ll grow together
grafting one another onto slick amber absence

thin barked and bolshy
willow and dogwood
cautiously discarding defunct notions of selfhood

transformation
not disintegration
you alongside me
inosculation

you and i gemels
sitting in a parlour
quietly re-dealing
through the afternoon