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A memory piece for 911 told by the spirits who passed on that day. (Dedicated to Families for Peaceful Tomorrows).

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Rings

The first thing was voices
after what was fathomed as pain.
Perhaps that was just the impact
and worn off shock.
Sure, those makeshift handcuffs hurt
but not as much as the fear,
a migraine’s pistol whipping
though they only brandished their real guns.

Damn my pounding head,
those nerves inherited from Mother,
when the hijacker’s accents actually,
if at a lower pitch,
could have seemed melodious.

Who wrote this libretto
I am still singing the evaporative
words of here?

It is an aria smoke-choked,
the fumes of fuselage
crashing in the blast’s ash
as no composed timpani
I would ever choose
to be a part of
any more than a frantic
mourning dove, cathedral-trapped,
in eaves of screams,
the vortex wind
of splinters,
a mass of wings bleeding,
broken to black.

Unaccountably, following afterwards,
veils of such silver began to spiral,
to glass-sparkle. What moth motes
we were then.
What disoriented unbound antennae
and mouths suddenly without gags.

Atoms lost limbs
but became flesh of some other,
became atoms without boundaries
calling for faces to name us
though they be bat-blind as moles.






If you found me would I know it?
Would touch recognize touch?

Love, as a roar, all sensations rain
until silence seems a sense.
We open from it as mast-flapping sails.
We open from it through shafts of cones
where once two towers stood.

Circling further, circling endless above this,
invisible yet years beyond,
invisible but within grasp
we visit as sighs of light,
as absence amid presence
to shadow the threshold
of what no longer is

and be entrances still.

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from Whispers of Arias (II), released December 24, 2012

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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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