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Holy Raven

from Peshawar by Megan O'Donoghue

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Holy Raven

The holy raven, black ribbons decorating her dresser like baby bunting

Mangoes and berries, swimming in a pool of fragrant cream

Lutheran sister tapping on my door, sliding glass into the laundry room

Where I stand folding, shredded bits of the scarlet calvary

And a blessed angel came to find me on a flying broom

and she was saying, if you can smell the rosy water, then so can we

But the grip of her holy hand was sieving the drift of the powdering sand and

counting time and saving souls, she escaped me, me

Fathers and daughters are always the loosing ones in such religions

the winning roles are always blessed with kindly mothers and saving sons

in the priest's garden a spider's dewy web will catch our eyes

while silken architects weave our glowing evenings by

and the sisters came to pray in the chapel of restlessness and they were saying

if you can sow this bitter earth ,then baby so can we

but the hem of a passing nun's wimple caused the pond to shiver and ripple

and their reflections in the water mixed with earth and sea, sea

and the sky the sky the sky the sky the sky

not the carving bird but the water will take to the sky

the sky the sky the sky the sky the sky

not the carving bird

and the sky the sky the sky the sky the sky

not the carving bird but the fish and water will take to the sky

oh, the sky the sky the sky the sky the sky

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from Peshawar, released June 28, 2015
vocals (Megan O'Donoghue), guitar (Sigit Pratama) cuk (Wirastuti Tutut Sulisingtyas) bass (Joko S Gombloh) percussion (Gondrong Gunarto), trumpet (Aditya Joe

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Megan O'Donoghue San Francisco, California

Megan O’Donoghue is an American vocalist, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress. O'Donoghue was classically trained as a vocalist in her youth and became widely know for her work in Indonesia as a singer and actress in traditional Javanese theater. She released her debut album PESHAWAR in 2015 to critical acclaim.
O’Donoghue lives with her daughter in the Bay Area of California. ... more

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