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A Ritual to Read to Each Other

from Winterlands by Laura Hyland / Clang Sayne

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Poem by William Stafford from his book, 'West Of Your City', Talisman Press, Harper & Row 1960
Reprinted by permission of the Estate Of William Stafford

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A Ritual To Read To Each Other

If you don't know the kind of person I am
And I dont know the kind of person you are
A pattern may prevail in the world
And following the wrong god home we may miss our star

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind
A shrug that lets the fragile sequence break
sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood
storming out to play trhough the broken dike

And as elephants parage holding each elephants' tail
But if one wanders the circus won't find the park
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
To know what occurs but not recognise the fact

And so, I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
- a remote, important region in all who talk.
Though we could fool each other we should consider.
Lest the parade of our mutual life gets lost in the dark

For it is important that awake people be awake
Or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep
The signals we give – yes, no or maybe – should be clear;
the darkness around us is deep

William Stafford

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from Winterlands, released March 9, 2010

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Clang Sayne Ireland

Described as ‘venturers in the post-genre slip stream, weaving folk, improv, art pop and contemporary classical into new material that is soft on the ear but tough as leather.’ (Cormac Larkin, Irish Times).

Laura Hyland (compositions, voice), Carolyn Goodwin (woodwinds, voice), Matthew Jacobson (drums, voice) ... more

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