Lyrics
The ceramic soy sauce pig your mother bought in Olongapo.
The condensation from the rice pot fogging up the glass.
That last Tuesday in November, the whole house smelled of garlic.
Vinegar steam drawing maps I didn't know I'd have to read.
[Verse 2]
"Sit down," you said, "the adobo's almost done."
The shipyard horn moaned through the rain across the Sinclair Inlet.
I was tracing patterns on the vinyl tablecloth, a sixteen-year-old ghost.
You were humming something low, a frequency I couldn't place.
[Verse 3]
Four years later, and two hundred fathoms down, the galley serves us gray.
The Pacific's just a constant, humming drone, a low and violent grace.
And I am taking soundings of a silence that goes on for nautical miles.
But your kitchen hits me like a rogue return, a ping across the dials.
[Outro]
It's not the taste, it's just the Doppler shift, I think.
The way a memory moves toward you, then is gone.
About Hollis Finch
Hollis Finch spent four years as a sonar technician on a U.S. Navy destroyer, charting the vast, empty landscapes of the North Pacific. He now writes songs in a damp Portland basement on the same nylon-string guitar his grandfather, a merchant marine, taught him to play. His music maps the quiet echoes of a life at sea and the strange shoreline between military discipline and civilian drift.…
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