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As She Folds Quiet Into Milk

from In My End Is My Beginning by MacGillivray

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This song is inspired by an embroidery of a Reindeer and Milkmaid on the Shrewsbury Hanging, stitched by Mary and taken from Conrad Gesner's
1560 'Icones Animalum'. The embroidery is moving because the stitching seems to depict the milkmaid as blindfold - an image painted many times of Mary on the way to the scaffold - and so seems something of a premonition. Air recorded at Linlithgow Palace on the anniversary of the birth of Mary Queen of Scots, 8 December 1542.

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I am god-filled, a storm on its knees. Listing, blind, rescinds. Nothing just the symptom of sky. As she folds quiet into milk, I unfold quiet into death. My blindfold hides churning eyes that beat buttermilk gold. Wet lashes trembling on the mermaid spy. The cockle-shell cuckold, chained to the air.

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from In My End Is My Beginning, released February 8, 2022
MacGillivray, dulcitone, pedal harmonium, vocals and lyrics.

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MacGillivray Scotland, UK

MacGillivray is a Scottish poet and musician, signed to Antigen Records and 100 Acre Recordings and published by Bloodaxe, 'The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless' 2016 and 'The Last Wolf of Scotland' (2nd edition) Redhen, Los Angeles. MacGillivray has performed with The Fall, Arlo Guthrie, Thurston Moore, Alan Moore, Shirley Collins and many others. ... more

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