Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 33-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Once
Once there was the soft glow
of a flare sent
Amber fragment
knocking out the sky
Then there was the darkness after too much light
Arc fallen
wading through the snow
Find the steel
sunk below
Fire in a half plan
shimmer up the cold
Find the steel
sunk below
“Once” from Dovetail (K, 1992) (download):
