cast –
long jawed spider
chorus
catbird/blue flag iris
george
oro and pablo
mulan
perdida
long jawed spider –
i walk and weave
over by water offering
streaming silver
to suns and moons
chorus –
they find places
pools in circles fountain
pipe stone maple lily
berry hyacinth reeds
long jawed spider –
high wire to darkness and daylight
stepping here
chorus –
or there or here
stoneflies midges
whir tapped waiting web
eight times many hands unfold
long jawed spider –
i sail into shade
over this pool
then evening
odd to see catbird just there close
chorus –
they poise eight stringed
breathing kite
catbird –
you would pass here
undetected
long-jawed spider –
i am a traveler
offering silk
catbird –
hide your prayers well
earthbound
walking in air over water
you become me in moonlight
chorus –
when ice begins
to still the dew
catbird –
i will
mind your prayer
chorus –
so it flies away
and into a tall magnolia
long-jawed spider –
now this night
dew bejewelled
i am not hungry at all
but thirsty
chorus –
they pass around the water
back and forth
unencumbering
a leaf falling in gentle wind
long-jawed spider –
here in the bush
over a wet stone wall
reeds near the algae
probed by fish
a maple
where nothing lands
under the fringe tree
in blackening ginger leaves
chorus –
eight are the places
for cloud-like sacs
long-jawed spider –
as suddenly as i thought it
catbird perches close
chorus –
they stretch their legs
straight out in front and behind
catbird –
summer was good to you
and to me
chorus –
now the story
of two hundred thousand moons
they stand up stretching
wings outspreading
catbird –
you do not see me crouch
as i launch into the air
all around you
soaring but not moving
long-jawed spider –
my prayer has summoned
blue flag iris
catbird –
now I fall like
light into the pond
chorus –
so much breathing sun
lighting dark space
feathers radiate
dissipate
falling like fire works
into murky water
sinking floating coalescing
luiminesce
blue flag iris –
with the roar of a fire unheard
i swim near the surface
chorus –
their luminescence flows
thru one fish two others and next
george –
i am ghost-like
many shades of our moon
i am iris
first sprouting
blue flag iris –
from earth to air
edge of small water
large forest
just lovely now in always
oro and pablo –
i am fiery silver gold
i am bold dabs black orange
we animate as one
swaying blue in green sea
blue flag iris –
what beyond woodland
in forever mostly empty place
mulan –
I am all colors
of every fish
watch closely
every lumen bursting fading
blue flag iris –
life of eight thousand flowers
as catbird we might see
perdida –
i am mostly black mostly white
i leap from the surface
as blue flag iris
shimmer into new morning shadows
blue flag iris –
flying as catbird we see
once is something never lost
just once woodland flowers
consume you spider
chorus –
they shake the web
a glowing drum
flower of smoke spiraling
something that was here
long-jawed spider –
is gone
yet i remain earthbound
chorus –
orb weaver sac spinner
wind flute sunlight eater
blue flag iris –
our fading blue song
grey wings dark eyes
exhalation toward
swirl of stars