🌠 🌃 "Under the cover of dreamtime air" - [POEM + piano + TEXT + visuals] 🌃 🌠

Under the cover of dreamtime air
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Under the cover of stars made rare
by smog and scarce perception
I wonder, reflect and inhale the light
of all that distant aerie.
I yearn and admonish the plaything self
that made my youth so vibrant:
and she that flew circles about my sky
still laughs in call of birdsong.
The contrails and smog and the fumes of the cars
had made the sunset bleary,
and I was left seeing delusions of grandeur
bright, in dancing phosphenes.
A smell and a touch of the telltale smoke
had set my mind emblazoned -
etched the with color and anguish of joy
until I long forgot love.
The dust and the wind and the sounds of the night
are making their constellations
where memoir infinity makes glow-ripples
in all the dun dimensions.
The chapters and titles and themes of my book
are fraught with repetition:
a cycle, a play of my bone and my blood
where characters develop.
The strange and the distant grow porous and harsh,
made grim by the familiar:
and that which I knew as the palm of my hand
collapsed - event horizon.
This nothingness, bleak as the moment of death
and as rapturous, ravenous too -
has swallowed my pain and my joy and my breadth
and I am made close to you.
Under the cover of stars made rare
by smog and scarce perception,
I wonder, reflect and inhale the light
of all that dreamtime air.
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written on on August 20, 2021
by Daniel Pendergraft (d-pend)
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originally posted on HIVE
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The piano backing was improvised by me using a Yamaha Montage keyboard in equal temperament at A=444 hz. The video was created in Final Cut Pro using various plugins including Yanobox Nodes 3 and Yanobox Storm.
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