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The door is still there but there’s no one in
Water filled milk cartons hold down damp tarpaulin
To save some wide stone walls, but much of it moved.
And in a paint-peeled outbuilding there’s one of a pair of shoes

And some manuscript paper, a child’s plastic plane
A map of Dyfed not quite sheltered from the rain
There’s a harmonium soft to the touch, a tin full of nails
Fragile as faith here in the damp hills of Wales

A three legged dresser in a room where the plaster falls
And curled photos in a suitcase open in the hall
Bright-coloured wallpaper, carefully applied
Home for the fungus now, a breeding place for flies

By the crumbling fireplace, a bed with dried straw beneath
A clatter of stairs chase to the hole in roof
A Japanese motorbike rests on an outside wall
An upturned table on the barnyard floor

Flecks of curtains but no one’s eyes look out
With the table cloth sets up a meal for the no one about
Vital papers and notes await in the drawers
For the eager eyes of the no-one who explores

A steel framed bench sits under a tree
Shapeless of spine; frame twisting free
Not from the heaviness of touch of the weary bent arms
Of the no-one who takes rest here from the work of the farm

Cars, a van from around 1982
Stand beside the steamlet’s side, two by two;
On the table, books relating to theology
A kettle waiting for no-one’s time for tea

I put down my ledger and my pen
Outside the sun is setting earlier again
I’ve a strong wish to talk about time moving on
I look around, all those I might talk to have gone

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from The End of Summer, released May 9, 2020
Jon Airdrie - voc, acoustic gtr, string arrangements
Andy Ponsford -bass
Martha Lee - voc
Jem Ponsford - drums

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Jon Airdrie and the Enablers Newport, UK

The Enablers is a band/project having the central notion of bringing a core number of people together to fashion a collection of songs, and then to record these songs, capturing the mood of the time - the mood both of the compositions themselves and of the band for the project's duration. To date, there have been eight Enablers. ... more

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