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IV: Grazioso | Silver-Tipped Swallow: "In My Defence, Spring"

IV: Grazioso | Silver-Tipped Swallow: "In My Defence, Spring"

I wanted to plant a garden with her, but her winter was my spring & none of the days moved slowly enough to catch.

Columns, Music, Personal EssayTopaz WintersDecember 4, 2017cigarettes after sex, frank ocean, marika hackman, silver-tipped swallow

IV: Grazioso | Searchlight Song: "No Hardship"

IV: Grazioso | Searchlight Song: "No Hardship"

My best mistakes could hear me for what I was. Through a stereo, over a headrest, I was so seen, so possible.

Columns, Music, Personal EssayChristina ImNovember 27, 2017lorde, searchlight song

“The day is green and I long ago reached the limit of my fear.” (Jill Mceldowney on Grazioso)

“The day is green and I long ago reached the limit of my fear.” (Jill Mceldowney on Grazioso)

We need to talk about this time of day—half dawn—when the ethereal is that gasp between defibrillator compressions.

Music, Personal EssayGuestNovember 21, 2017Jill Mceldowney

IV: Grazioso | Uncomposed: "Through Everything"

IV: Grazioso | Uncomposed: "Through Everything"

When she was younger, my grandmother danced cour for a local ballet company.

Columns, Music, Personal Essay, HistoryLydia EileenNovember 15, 2017uncomposed, Dalton Day, Green Day, Pink + White, St. Vincent, My Chemical Romance

"It's how August would feel if it could feel anything." (Yves Olade on Grazioso)

"It's how August would feel if it could feel anything." (Yves Olade on Grazioso)

I meant melody & strings, rhapsody & joy. Like wall barley, crumbling naked at a touch. An open sky.

Music, Personal EssayGuestNovember 6, 2017yves olade

"It felt right. That's all you need." (Eli Winter on "Woodlawn Waltz" & Grazioso)

"It felt right. That's all you need." (Eli Winter on "Woodlawn Waltz" & Grazioso)

I hear melancholy in it as well as contentment, but different listeners will hear different things.

Music, Personal EssayGuestOctober 29, 2017Daniel Bachman, Will Csorba, Tom Carter, Jaime Fennelly, Cory Rayborn, Jana Hunter, Eli Winter

“It’s a lie to think we can both create and maintain some wholeness in this world.” (Devin Kelly on Grazioso)

“It’s a lie to think we can both create and maintain some wholeness in this world.” (Devin Kelly on Grazioso)

I have stumbled into so many of the loves in my life.

Music, Personal EssayGuestOctober 20, 2017devin kelly, james blake, keith jarrett, van morrison

To Trade a Throat for Song

To Trade a Throat for Song

Call this bridge, meeting place. Call it, mosque. Call it, and it will call back.

Music, History, Personal Essay, PoliticsDanie ShokoohiOctober 3, 2017

Lake Song

Lake Song

When night came, we were shepherded inside. Too many animals. Too many hungry trees.

Music, Personal EssayDanie ShokoohiSeptember 17, 2017

Home is a City in Your Mind

Home is a City in Your Mind

I stopped writing. Okay. Yes. But say instead, the world ended. Say instead, lobotomy.

Music, Personal EssayDanie ShokoohiSeptember 2, 2017