Mallory Hawk - Four O’Clocks
Mallory Hawk lets a vivid childhood memory bloom again
Smell can revive intense memories. For Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Mallory Hawk, it is the flowers around her since-demolished childhood home that trigger a reflection on her past and present. “Four O’Clocks” is the latest single and one of the gentler songs from her upcoming album, Chinook, whose title is a reference to the military helicopters that were part of her childhood.
She recalls:
‘Four o’clocks’ are the flowers that lined the walkway to our front steps. They're fragrant and magenta, and only bloom from 4 to 8 pm. They were always fresh when I got home from school and the smell just transports me there—it’s such a vivid memory for me, down to the sounds, colors, and textures. I really wanted to just feel the winds and smell the smells of my home and reflect on how far I’d come since then, but the reality is quite drab and anti-climactic.
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