Here
Under swirling canopy
And streaming birdsong
I have held you
In my mind's eye
By the golden water
Blossoms swirl spindrift
And dry lipped mouth
the words of goodbye
Here among the fluttering
Dawns swishing shadows
I see you on the other bank
And you are carefree
At last
Alone amongst the vaulted boughs
That know not of eye blink lives
I am a stranger, an unwelcome visitor
To a cathedral
in mass.
I carry not saw or axe or flame and
lie still
Hoping against hope
I will not be noticed
Holding the memory of you.
With an easing yet tremulous breath
An interlude slips between the elegy
The awareness slips like a thief
Beyond the skin
And we are soaring with the hawks
Flitting with fairy wrens
Chuckling in the stream
And weaving webs
Of connection
Across the storied dream
Here is where the decision was firm
To raise children amongst the forest.
Right there is where the placenta was buried.
And that's where you sat, and we laughed.
Here is where I
Come
To say goodbye
Under the hallowed halls
of Karri and Tingle
'Cross the banks drawn
Twixt ‘n tween the worlds
Of the Living and the Lost
The emerging and the merging
Of aged memory
Of youths callow frost
Of surveyor
And the relentless unseen
Here under swirling canopy
And streaming birdsong
You have held me in your mind's eye
By the golden water
Blossoms swirl spindrift
And dry lipped mouth
The words of goodbye
Here among the fluttering
Dawns swishing shadows
You see me on the other bank
And I am carefree
At last
Under swirling canopy
And streaming birdsong
I have held you
In my mind's eye
By the golden water
Blossoms swirl spindrift
And dry lipped mouth
the words of goodbye
Here among the fluttering
Dawns swishing shadows
I see you on the other bank
And you are carefree
At last
Alone amongst the vaulted boughs
That know not of eye blink lives
I am a stranger, an unwelcome visitor
To a cathedral
in mass.
I carry not saw or axe or flame and
lie still
Hoping against hope
I will not be noticed
Holding the memory of you.
With an easing yet tremulous breath
An interlude slips between the elegy
The awareness slips like a thief
Beyond the skin
And we are soaring with the hawks
Flitting with fairy wrens
Chuckling in the stream
And weaving webs
Of connection
Across the storied dream
Here is where the decision was firm
To raise children amongst the forest.
Right there is where the placenta was buried.
And that's where you sat, and we laughed.
Here is where I
Come
To say goodbye
Under the hallowed halls
of Karri and Tingle
'Cross the banks drawn
Twixt ‘n tween the worlds
Of the Living and the Lost
The emerging and the merging
Of aged memory
Of youths callow frost
Of surveyor
And the relentless unseen
Here under swirling canopy
And streaming birdsong
You have held me in your mind's eye
By the golden water
Blossoms swirl spindrift
And dry lipped mouth
The words of goodbye
Here among the fluttering
Dawns swishing shadows
You see me on the other bank
And I am carefree
At last
Written & Spoken by Tim Dunn
Sound Design and Music by Marianthe Loucataris
Sound Design and Music by Marianthe Loucataris
