by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Stefania Pandolfo
The Sea Isn't Rising, The Ground is Sinking Matches base text
Language: English  after the Unknown Language
I raise my eyes and see the corner of the ceiling falling in. This house, I think, is collapsing. Then the house transforms. It dissolves or expands. It becomes landscape. It turns into the rocky red soil at the edge of the palm groves. I am walking. I am still inside the house, sweeping. The inside becomes the outside. A young man I don't know is telling me: "Watch your step, don't walk, don't sweep here, you are standing on a graveyard. Everything is disintegrating-the ground is sinking. If you step on it you'll find yourself inside a grave." I raise my eyes. I realise that I am walking on the grounds of a cemetery. An old cemetery, unmarked and invisible. One can guess that there are graves only from the shape of the terrain, uneven and full of holes. I think, a forgotten graveyard.
Impasse of the Angels-Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory; A collection of Berber & Arabic folkloric poetry from the Dra' Valley in Morocco
Composition:
- Set to music by Paul Clift (b. 1978), "The Sea Isn't Rising, The Ground is Sinking", copyright © 2018 [ soprano, saxophone, piano, percussion and electronics ], BabelScores
Publisher: BabelScores [external link]
Text Authorship:
- by Stefania Pandolfo , "The Sphere of the Moon - the dream"
Based on:
- a text in Unknown Language by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
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