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© by Joanne Regenhardt (flourished c2000)

Sally's Suicide
Language: English 
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.

Text Authorship:

  • by Joanne Regenhardt (flourished c2000), appears in Soundings, Trafford Publishing, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Mark Abel (b. 1948), "Sally's Suicide", first performed 2018 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from The Ocean of Forgiveness, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Mark Abel

This text was added to the website: 2018-05-16
Line count: 21
Word count: 85

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