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Joan Floating

from Choral Soliloquies (I) by Stephen Mead

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The last thoughts of Joan of Arc as she finds escape/release

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Joan Floating


Burners turned herky-jerky,
the berserk motion of drunks----
From what basin do these waves accelerate?
My arms, sails, winding around masts,
take flames leeward
then shelter the hush, astonished
by what oranges, topaz, bejeweled gusts
bleed up blue.

How anguish is just relative,
indigenous to such dancing that eats,
chafes, dazzles sweat’s fever.
To where is it blazing?
Not liquid bronze, this garment of flesh,
a collection of swathes
presently darkened in succession
‘til only bones would resemble gold
if their char’s ever washed away.

So, billowing, I smoke, float,
a swooshing of voices now crackling
their wireless to root reception in place:
There, cloud gauze, adrift, betrothing
Juno to her essence: a sea gull’s cry
wheeling circles somewhere painless

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

39557__jus__cellos-three-chords, 65382__digifishmusic__aceeeent, Comunio.DomineQuinque samples InternetArchive.org

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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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