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Prologue
01:05
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2. |
Warszawa
05:11
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I
Warszawa, I whisper your name,
your frozen ponds stealing back
through steppes of drifted snow,
birds like white pepper
against approaching evening,
beautiful and straight
like leafless trees
and steeples blue with night,
orange with days
that run past this express train
to Kraków far to the south.
II
Women with blue eyes point and talk,
their words running together,
the flowers they hold
opening in the cold flickering twilight.
We’re all out of kilter in this world
that slips into the next –
it feels sadder than the one I know –
and people on the street look worn
like their shoes
with which they are
torn into life
like paper in rain.
VI
First let me explain
that I do not understand
the depth of sorrow
that this old one feels,
she who sits and weeps
just inside Kościół Mariacki,
her heart empty and familiar
as spring bringing rain.
I feel the ache of weary bone
and tired spirit,
the Kyrie bringing forth tears
for a loss too fierce to hang
on smoky wind;
of a soul impossible to defend
with wall and pistol
or prayer and blood,
or a winter that is spoken of
in the street
as one that, during these days,
goes to the sea.
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3. |
Song for a Poet
08:03
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5. |
Monkey Scratch Dance
03:33
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6. |
Krakow Na Wiosne
06:37
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7. |
Song for a Singer
11:33
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8. |
Rail
05:18
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9. |
Epilogue
01:07
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Dennis Gonzalez Dallas, Texas
Dennis Gonzalez, composer/musician, visual artist, educator, broadcaster, and writer has worked from Dallas for 46 years. He has played, toured, and recorded with many of the luminaries of New Jazz worldwide.
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