Sometimes something, anything, living or mechanical can sway you onto another path, make you see things you've never bothered to experience....this single action changes everything.
For some strange reason a letter in the mail this afternoon has changed what i was seeing as a certain death situation into something so positive. This is for you.....Ive only been able to find 5 pieces of work on the net so far, but it was your hand that pushed me into the right direction.
I love this one so much. Thank you. x
The Persistence of Song
Although it is not yet evening
The secretaries have changed their frocks
As if it were time for dancing,
And locked up in the scholars' books
There is a kind of rejoicing,
There is a kind of singing
That even the dark stone canyon makes
As though all fountains were going
At once, and the color flowed from bricks
In one wild, lit upsurging.
What is the weather doing?
And who arrived on a scallop shell
With the smell of the sea this morning?
-Creating a small upheaval
High above the scaffolding
By saying, "All will be well.
There is a kind of rejoicing."
Is there a kind of rejoicing
In saying, "All will be well?"
High above the scaffolding,
Creating a small upheaval,
The smell of the sea this morning
Arrived on a scallop shell.
What was the weather doing
In one wild, lit upsurging?
At once, the color flowed from bricks
As though all fountains were going,
And even the dark stone canyon makes
Here a kind of singing,
And there a kind of rejoicing,
And locked up in the scholars' books
There is a time for dancing
When the secretaries have changed their frocks,
And though it is not yet evening,
There is the persistence of song.
- Howard Moss