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Full Moon Rituals

from WanderLust by April Lee Fields

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With Craigus McVegas setting the mood with his bluesy guitar and April Lee Fields reading from her novel 'A Version of You,' prepare to be taken upon an epic journey across continents; from small-town America to hippy communes deep in the Australian Outback, from the linoleum suburbs of April's hometown in the UK, to overgrown jungle temples deep in the heart of Asia.
April’s story-telling performances are set against a melodious guitar that will often drift into an assortment of songs that have been carefully paired with the reading.
April’s vivid descriptions of both the exotic and the mundane are entwined with a soulful observation that will transport the listener into a world of pure literary and melodic magic.

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Full Moon Rituals
(excerpt from A Version of You)

Upon Sihanoukville’s shoreline, I stepped out from beneath the pale light of my winter memories and I felt the warm breeze remind me of the curve in my thighs. I shook them to life against the radio station’s top-twenty cliché melodies. The mound upon my belly performed a speakeasy of one-too-many roast dinners that had been entangled within an endless story of winter. With three syllables running through my veins, I tenderly remembered that I had but borrowed a body in this lifetime that was not made of wool nor cloth. My body and I met as old friends beneath the bounty of the setting sun and merged together upon the sand. The party shacks sprawled out like a pleated skirt across the thigh of existence and I danced rituals of devotion that anticipated the moon’s arrival. There, I was reminded of my worth and gave birth to a reconnection of limbs, for I knew that I was but a child of the sun.
The entire evening came and went like a one night stand whose betrothed morality had only returned to her with the broken breath of dawn. I looked, wide-eyed, at the waking of the world and solemnly wondered how long the moon would continue to chase the warmth of the sun. So quickly she did run back to him, despite the soft connection that the previous night air had blanketed the two of us in. Yet the moon and I were an unspoken lunar sin. She and the sun were tied to one another by prehistoric fabrics that could never be broken. The sun would never know that I could love the moon’s deep caverns just as well as him, that I could also sustain her life force… for I too had golden hair.

Written by April Lee Fields

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from WanderLust, released July 26, 2019
Craigus McVegas

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April Lee Fields New Orleans, Louisiana

April Lee Fields is a spoken word artist, traveler, dreamer, shamanic songstress and author of 'A Version of You.'

Journey with her through ethereal trip hop, peaceful poetic performances, funky garden party improv-jams, and dive deeply into a mermaids lyrical lagoon of languid love.

Such is the journey of WanderLust. ... more

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