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The original inspiration for this track was a riff by Gav Sirisena, which made images and words come to Fay. They performed it a few times, and then life got busy. Each musician Fay has worked with in performing this piece has brought something different and this is merely the latest incarnation with Anaïs. The piece has been performed within the circle at Stonehenge, just after the midsummer solstice sun had risen...

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We make no sense, it seems –
We are rushing to stand still.
You see, we’re not a circle after all,
We’re a spiral: beginning and end invisible.

We are helical, a maze of breaths.
The sigh that spoke your bones still calls,
And you and I are diacritics
In the mouth of the world.

Look – its breath shapes dunes
Its tongue in cloud shadows that talk of storms.
The fingers running through the standing grasses,
The palm of the wave clasping the foam of stones.
The farewell of galloping manes, a river rush.

And while rain tumbles down hillsides,
Its sisters make tributaries on my window,
And I miss home.

Listen – all the words that we make
To shape what we see
Are bricks, not the ocular grain of timber,
The purling verse of the woods in springtime…

We are but a part of it,
Dizzied in the turn of the dance,
Glimpsing our destination
In the salmon leap of sun from water,
The curve of fire shadows on your cheek,
And the way that mountains pull against the sky,
And take us with them.

And even all these – and even them?
They are only trills and glosses
On the age-old song
The world is singing of itself.

The same one that is new
In every note.

credits

from The Speaking Strings, released December 24, 2015
Fay Roberts (lyrics, vocals)
Anaïs Bokanovsky (harp)

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