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Bear and Arrow

by Teresa Toro

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My favorite novel is Little, Big by John Crowley and a passage in it always caught at my imagination: "... As one tree traces back to Daphne but another has to be a mere commoner; as only the odd flower, mountain, fact gets to have divine ancestry, so Cassiopeia of all people is brilliantly asterized, or her chair rather, as though by accident; and somebody else's crown, and another's lyre: the attic of the gods."

I look up at the night sky and wonder what the gods have left up there, what may be trapped forever, and why.

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You're a hunter a god
Shaped like a beast
Shaped like a beast
Long life of pursuit
Now you’re released
Now you’re released

Tracing a path
Through the trees
Through the trees
Outline transformed
Over the seas
Over the seas

You’re captured
You’re captured
You live in the stars
You’re a story
A story we tell in the dark
It whispered
It whispered
The arrow flew true
Arrow found you
And now you live in the stars

Sprawled across the night sky
Bear-frame
An astral outline
Arrow thrummed it found its mark
Wrote your story star by star

You’re captured
You’re captured
You live in the stars
You’re a story
A story we tell in the dark
It whispered
It whispered
The arrow flew true
Arrow found you

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released December 18, 2019
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Teresa Toro: vocals, acoustic guitar
Charlie Nieland: lap steel, electric guitar, bass, drums

Music and lyrics by Teresa Toro

Produced, engineered & mastered by Charlie Nieland
Saturation Point, Brooklyn NY
www.charlienieland.com

John Crowley’s Little, Big: A Fantasy Masterpiece Turns Forty by Jonathan Thornton
www.tor.com/2021/11/03/john-crowleys-little-big-a-fantasy-masterpiece-turns-forty/

Little, Big by John Crowley
40th anniversary edition, author's preferred text
store.deepvellum.org/products/little-big

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Teresa Toro Brooklyn, New York

A late-blooming songwriter, Teresa tries on different characters and channels their stories of love, regret, and existential indecision – sometimes in the same verse. Teresa is also a regular performer with The Bushwick Book Club, a Brooklyn-based performance series. ... more

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