The clouds cling to the muscular back of the wind til hooked on the peaks of the Santa Rosas they lie wedged in trembling refuge. A wild gourd vine, like a casket spray on the dry wash, extravagantly blooms and bears in nonchalance at the passing of its season. Why ride like clouds when I can push the wind away with pinyon posture, and hear it gallop down the wash to meet the moaning of its burying place and the wild gourd blooming?
The Ocean of Forgiveness
Song Cycle by Mark Abel (b. 1948)
1. Desert Wind  [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Joanne Regenhardt (flourished c2000), appears in Soundings, Trafford Publishing, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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2. Sally's Suicide  [sung text checked 1 time]
The poetry of her life hung suspended like a broken mobile on the bridge of her abandoned boat. She had entered there from time to time to sort the fragments of her former self and came away with some sweet witticism, a smile of remembrance from the past. But hope had left her, and expectation. Existence like a sea anemone had become a fastened thing and ended one day from the desultory feeding and the weight of water upon the gentle movement of its tentacles.
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- by Joanne Regenhardt (flourished c2000), appears in Soundings, Trafford Publishing, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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3. In Love with the Sky  [sung text checked 1 time]
“Look at her. The pink is all gone,” says Alice at sunset. “Isn’t she marvelous. How did she do that so fast?” “This morning she took the sun and used it to turn herself into a flamingo. She is so clever.” She gives of herself in such quantity. She wraps me to her, holding me closely and strongly like a mother, she protects with her cupped hands all the living and conducts the symphony of storms from her high podium. I am subject to her many moods and yearn for the capriciousness of them – to accept them. Alice and I are in love with the sky.
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- by Joanne Regenhardt (flourished c2000), appears in Soundings, Trafford Publishing, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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4. Reunion  [sung text checked 1 time]
There would be such a rushing of outstretched arms if the way were clear between. A breeze, chill edged, would be created by the speed of spread hands on taut limbs before bodies, adrenalin driven, would find, on impact, such a peace, such a reign of rightness in that union.
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- by Joanne Regenhardt (flourished c2000), appears in Soundings, Trafford Publishing, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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5. Patience  [sung text checked 1 time]
We wait until the leaves are gone and every shell washed clean by the ocean of forgiveness until our star becomes a day sun and no state of mind nor person’s pain can separate us anymore until together, we will love the world.
Authorship:
- by Joanne Regenhardt (flourished c2000), appears in Soundings, Trafford Publishing, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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