Allen, thanks for helping John there
John, thanks for the link to Hoss. Yes, that's a very big man. He died young, I read: "a post-operative pulmonary embolism following gall bladder surgery."
Thanks also for posting the poem that ends your
Concerto for the Left Hand. Does the MS have anything to do with Ravel's piano concerto? I particularly like 'the song that makes the birds sing' and the humming of the particles.
Well, I found the trance track, and then I found another, which proved a better fit. But then I wrote a poem so F&F I can't post it here. What I have is a poem from upstream, this time with a great recording of the relevant Debussy prelude,
here
Bruyères
Returning to Bruyères in 1910,
00some years before the Second World War rout,
he brought his drafting book and fine-nib pen
00in hopes to overcome his writing drought –
and this he did, upon vivacious streets
00all flanked by merry red-roofed shops and homes,
and by the castle, where astounding feats
00had been performed, as told in tunes and tomes;
his Muse sang sweetest, though, in town surrounds,
00in mountain woods with sunlight through the pines,
the calls of birds and deer his favourite sounds,
00enticing as the region's finest wines –
and Sylvie there, a girl he used to know,
he'd loved her 'til her death, so long ago.
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I'll email you the new F&F poem, if you like