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I Sent a Letter to My Love

from Choral Soliloquies (I) by Stephen Mead

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Avant garde love song

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I Sent a Letter to My Love

(Thanks to Bernice Rubens)

A drop in the bucket it was, water, water
Welling. I thought if perhaps we were
Suddenly stone-struck, then we'd have
Some sort of beauty, noble, immutable
To the descent of gray sheets. Marble slabs

Chiseled gothic, poignant under a curtain
Of trickles: what a presence, perfection,
Catharsis of a kind. The features would be
Set, no recesses revealed, no sadness, no longing,
Only a passion, roman cold, cauterized right into
Rock. I needed that,

Desired metamorphosis, at least some coral cove
For gulls flapping over, their tattered whiteness
A mirror-series of flags against the mad seas
Distraction, its lament, intractable:
The moon rise, the tidal pull-----

Stone is never so desperate, & to fathom
My real hunger would be to acknowledge
Just what you have been. Instead I embrace
The statue of my carving, & enter it, fitted
To form. In that stasis there is a storm
To weather the shelter of, evading

Evading the secret each wave delivers
As it eats my basalt. Breath after breath,
The solitude spreads shadows on far shores,
A whole continent of lighthouses, & my
Engraved craving falls, littered letters in surf.

Drifting, now eyes watch how gulls come,

Picking

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from Choral Soliloquies (I), released May 20, 2017
from FreeSound.org, contributors I.D. from site

35730__kerri__haunted-canyon-flute, Schmetterling Kevin Macleod, Incompetech.com

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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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