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From "Threnody for a Forgotten Plague", work-in-progress dealing with the early days of the AIDS pandemic, specifically the fracturing of voices which literally and emotionally occurs during any such outbreak throughout time: the medical, political bureaucracy vs. the voices of humans fighting for their health and well being.

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Dark Angel

The wings are night dipped
So one can barely see them, only when
Nearest, only when feeling how,
Like nets of hair, they graze.

From the silhouette of this window, its
Cloud & yew shrouded constellation, there's
Enough light to tell the sheer interwoven velvet
Which conceives to me exactly what you are.

Of course, at the, center, head to toe,
There's something else: an onyx of heat,
Basalt, ripple-veined, with iron flecks
Turning neon green, plum red, muted gold,
Pale silver blue. Such colors one would think
Solid, like your trunk, arms, & legs,
But, a single sweep down, pressing close,
& all flows to liquid, the river heart
Of some redwood.

What tree breathes acquainted
With such darkness but carrying air's bright
Flight? Is this the voice of skin, a wilderness
In the city, intimate to bridges, subways,
The tunnels of hustle, streets of peace,
Streets, streets of war?

Being all things, I can't call you anything,
Not mine or love, though when you slumber
Like a log, the evanescence just hovering,
I stroke your back, its stretches of nylon,
& could almost covet those terms.

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from Threnody for a Forgotten Plague, released December 24, 2014
In addition to instruments and sounds recorded around the house, and samples from MusicCreator5, the following sites also provided royalty free sounds and music:
SoundDogs.com, SoundBible.com, MP3Skull.com, InternetArchive.org (Various Unidentified Choral Chants before "tweaking"*), and FreeSound.org
*Ofert.Deprofundis, Sanctus Mass Viii, Kyrie-MassXviii

Particular FreeSound users (Cormi, Kerri, Setuniman, Suburban-Grilla, Pryght-One, ERH) provided

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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