This column of sound
Echoes the shape of distant lands
Where citrus blooms and happiness passes
 
Blissful
Beauteous
Vivid
 
You came
With ardent love
And innnigkeit
 
One voice
One lifetime
Ranged across ‘die welt’ of art song
 
This vibrating soul
The mask and resonance
Cousins all human desire
 
Febrile
Transcendent
Alluvial
 
The fantastic frisson
That startles all
With immortal fire:
 
Oh komm
Du wunderbares ding
O komm!
 
 
 
Gar Jones - August 2006

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