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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Stefania Pandolfo

The Sea Isn't Rising, The Ground is Sinking
 (Sung text for setting by P. Clift)
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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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This text was added to the website: 2026-09-14
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