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First there was light

Song Cycle by Jeffrey Ryan

1. Los Alamos

Language: English 
First there was light:/ a mirror for the powerful
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Text Authorship:

  • by Barbara Goldowsky , appears in Ferry to Nirvana and New Poems, first published 1991, copyright ©

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2. Chemistry

Language: English 
Distill our love/ in Erlenmeyer flasks
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  • by Barbara Goldowsky , appears in Ferry to Nirvana and New Poems, first published 1991, copyright ©

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3. Solstice

Language: English 
Fed with fire and song/ the Sun this day has climbed
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  • by Barbara Goldowsky , appears in Ferry to Nirvana and New Poems, first published 1991, copyright ©

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4. Morning prayer

Language: English 
We wake to a cool summer morning
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5. Inventory

Language: English 
My mother's things,/ inventory of a simple life
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  • by Barbara Goldowsky , appears in Ferry to Nirvana and New Poems, first published 1991, copyright ©

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6. Love letter

Language: English 
I send you my love/ A flock of geese
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  • by Barbara Goldowsky , appears in Ferry to Nirvana and New Poems, first published 1991, copyright ©

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7. Count my bones

Language: English 
My sickness disappeared/ when I began to sing
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8. Watermill

Language: English 
I would not be the millstone/ but the wind to fill your sails
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9. Fires in the desert

Language: English 
I am the feathered shaman:/ I dream a world
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