AUDIO recording...(4:28min) I am rather 'melancholic' at the moment, and recorded this 4 times, eventually going with the first practice session... Oh, and I've used one of my own photographs too.
Lo-fi: Uncertainty…
Hi-fi: Uncertainty…
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This is rather intense, but I can live with it (isn't that ultimately the only criteria?). The character is at a low point in the turning...
In the uncertainty of every moment, where the fragile knowing rests on unknowing, how do we push through the collisions of the days? The overwhelming propensity of the world bears in on us. It is vast and unfathomable and mysterious and yet we must. Go into the darknesses and wrestle with the disappearing light, call the dancing angel back, carry what is ethereal and impossible to grasp. Is it always a question of light, bringing ourselves to consciousness? Of evolving into who we are. And of healing the splits, the wounds, the places where the shredding, that couldn’t. How to move from a state of deliquescence to the harmony of integration. Where the ground of being is apparent. When integration itself is only a process that is superceded by chaos, and another integration. Unless it all falls apart, that is. It is always falling apart and always staying together. Living without a shell burns.
Without defenses, without well worn responses, without any agendas to trick meaning or at least a coherency, what then? Crawling like an amoeba without the skin of its cell? Guts spill out. The nucleus is torn from its sacred sac. What is inside splayed over the field of vision. She may not carry the sack of herself like baggage across the landscape of firings and dangers and meltings of what encloses and keeps us safe.
Was any day easier than the one before? Implosions were going off in her mind at infrequent intervals. Memories were raping, denuding, leaving her breathless and torn. Her insides hurt. Her breath rasped and hurt. Perhaps anger was sliding through her brain cells like dark wisps of perturbations, little halcyons and tornadoes, jumbling up the past with the present, living in a storm.
It hurt, wet leaves on skin, where the green veins knit into her hand. “Bury us in the dung of light,” says Celan. Who she meets in the underworld, where it is growing over. I didn’t lose any in the crematoriums, but I am lost, hold me tight, Yorick, whose skull, a soliloquy in Hamlet’s vine entangled palm. The lifeline sparking.
Yet the sky was blindingly bright; the sun a combustion of blessings in the sky pouring benediction over her as she stood in its golden raiment. Last night the moon had yanked her from her enclosed thoughts and she saw how she was akin to insects crawling indeterminately over the globe that the moon shines indiscriminately on constantly. She and Kafka sang. Of trials and metamorphoses. The air windy, crisp and perfect for those shuttling like the Autumn leaves down the dark alley of fences and motion detector lights behind the houses that are rooted to the earth in their basements.
The days were falling on themselves. Diurnally turning day into night into day. Can this be the rhythm of the rising and falling, of the coming together and the splitting apart, of the fearless fathoming of the insouciant depths. Where the eyes blaze.
In a fury of love.
©2005 Brenda Clews
Hey Brenda. I really enjoyed the aural poetry! It really adds a dimension to the text in ways that didn't quite come across when I read it. Like the Greeks, I've always believed that poetry should be an aural experience. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the process for this? I would like to add that component to my blog.
lhombre, thank you. I use a free music site; I've never had any problems with it - except they don't have a genre for poetry. Doesn't seem to matter, though. Probably half of my prose poems have even made it into the top 80 or better (in, ahem, "World Music")! -:)
ReplyDeleteCreative Commons is the place to go. For adding a license to your site, yes, most definitely. And that's where I found Soundclick; it's under "Audio" at Creative Commons, and then down on the left hand side. One enrolls as a "band." You get 10MB free upload per "song," with the number of songs unlimited. I don't know what the bandwidth is, but then I don't get a lot of hits so it's not been a problem.
It would be wonderful for your poetry as well as your jazz pieces, or a combination thereof...
*hugs xo
Thanks Brenda. I will mosey on over to creative commons.
ReplyDeleteSaw your post over at Richards. I liked what you had to say, especially your reference to the revelatory metaphor. Those are a lot like Proust's ideas of "instant flashes." I read about that many years ago when I was working on my MFA thesis. If I recall exactly where I'll pass it on.