Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"In The Basin of Alkaline Grief" appears on Scarcity’s album The Promise of Rain released by The Flenser.

Originally released on July 12, 2024

Directed by Derrick Belcham
Choreographed and performed by Rebecca Margolick

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Weightless in the arid wind
I plummet, wild and livid

Towards your sere terrain
Cruel and perfect
It burns, unconquered

Scarred and crenelated
Where the waters went extinct
Echoes from epochs of violence

That left its bones flayed
And though I am afraid
I rush towards your embrace

Here, in the basin of alkaline grief
Loom the wounds in your soul, arrayed
Beneath the heavens’ desiccant gaze

I will make this waste our home
Beloved, you will never be alone