"Untitled" by Don Francis, Spanish Banks roaming-the-planet |
My course is set for an uncharted sea.
– Dante Alighieri
Gregory Alan Isakov
"Berth" from Evening Machines
silver-wing-ed, broken english, boys they smoke
talk and joke
above the water
New York lady, holding in her heavy hand
sacred lantern, guiding dawn
quit all that looking back
i quit all of that
casting glances backwards, but it’s not your fault
turned to salt for wondering
in your braids and heavy pages, we were folded
kiss the cold and dirty ground
quit all that looking back
i quit all of that
seasons wake with sleeping birds now flying south
covered mouth, we watch in awe
fallen pines to shape the skyline
take me there
beneath the barren colored moon
quit all that looking back
i quit all of that
greeting all the masses
from their teeming shores
she was born with open eyes
her color . . . is coming back
© Gregory Alan Isakov
(for more music, visit his website)
April 1: John Muir
April 2: e.e. cummings and enra
April 3: Edith Wharton and Henri Matisse
April 4: Cesare Pavese
April 5: Anton Chekhov and Cat Stevens
April 6: Ray Bradbury and... cats
April 8: Albert Einstein and John Bohannon
April 10: Zelda Fitzgerald and Arvo Pärt
April 11: Elinor Wylie
April 12: David Ault and Imogen Heap
April 13: William Shakespeare and Alice Tzue
April 14: Bruce Garrabrandt and OK Go
April 15: Anne Kent Rush and Bill T. Jones
April 17: Jean Houston and Lunch Break Quartet
April 18: John Milton
April 19: Dante Alighieri, Don Francis, and Gregory Alan Isakov
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