LITTLE SONG OF DARKNESS

In honour of World Poetry Day in this unusual and uncertain time,  a poem for three voices

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Susan Gillis
LITTLE SONG OF DARKNESS 

for three interpenetrating voices

Just me and my aura on heaven’s roof

                                                         Just me and my aura

floating around           in a big white suit

                        on heaven’s roof   

                                                            Just me and my aura

                                   clomping around in big white boots

             floating around                          in a big white suit

on heaven’s roof

                  Everything here’s so strange and mute

clomping                             clomping around

                       floating                                         floating 

                                I’m shrinking              

in big white boots                  so strange                 and mute

                                                                so strange                      inside

I’m shrinking  inside                                       my big white suit

                  and mute  inside                  my strange  white suit

                                  I’m strange  inside         on heaven’s roof 

This poem was performed Feb 29, 2020 by Bon Echo (Anne Archer, Barb Secker, and Alfred von Mirbach) as part of the River Resonance Chamber Choir's concert Music of Life: Birth, Courage, Hope and Loss in Perth, Ontario

Image: Terry Standefer