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Eel Song is dedicated to the wildlife of Birmingham's canals. The creatures and plants that live on the banks, in the depths, and in the ruins of buildings, populating the spaces the humans don't need. An underworld also inhabited by spectres of lost industries and their workers, along with the rubbish of generations.
The refrain is a sort of incantion or spell. It is a list of some of the flora, fauna and and industrial debris you might find along the canals, a chant that you can recite inside your head when the world feels cold.
Let down the leatherette concertina blind, driver
Take me away from here
It's been a long day at Kalamazoo
Take me back to Cincinnati
On fresh avenues beside the locked waters
Where the ghost of the Futurist swims
Where the unloved bones and spent machines
Sunk in sediment and silence
The water vole, the dragonfly, the kingfisher
The pigeon, the starling, the rat
Listen together as the eels tell their tales
From the forests of the wide Sargasso
'We'll send cigarettes and sugarcubes and blessed cotton socks
If you lead us to the wild river Tame
Treasure grows like chickweed where we're bound beyond the Bourn
By the salty gyres that carry us away'
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