The breathtakingly talented musician Sarah Marze set my poem "Winter Calls for You" to music. I feel deeply honored. The Goldsmiths Choral Union sang it on December 13, 2024 at St. John's, Sloane Square, London, under the direction of Jack Apperley. Sarah Marze will have an enduring impact on the world of music. Check out her site at sarahmarze.com.
The poem:
Winter Calls for You
Sky cover, an eggshell: translucent
Time steeper, sleep keeper, silence dreamer.
Life is at rest and mother-warmed within
A globe within a globe, all life, one life
Under the sun, the press of mother love
And silence, sky cover fractures, dissolves
Light and shadow, swaddles the newborn day
With love promise: winter is for closed eyes
And slowed, quiet hunger. Let spring wake you,
Unwrap you, hold you, raise you lightward,
Open-eyed, filled with dreams of winter night,
Returned from the universe of star souls.
So ends the year as winter starts anew.
Cold earth dims her lights and calls for you.
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