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In October 2012, French bass player and jazz composer

Nicolas Moreaux found my poetry book and contacted me,

asking permission to use a portion of my poem

Days Without Water on his CD entitled

Fall Somewhere. Since its release last January, 

the CD has received articles in the French press,

and also won a price called

“Le Grand Prix Du Disque Charles Cros”.

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/fall_somewhere,_feat._bill_mchenry-cd-5816.html

http://www.nicolasmoreaux.com/

 

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Below is a link to where the CD is available for purchase:

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/fall_somewhere,_feat._bill_mchenry-cd-5816.html

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Nicolas Moreaux’s website:

http://www.nicolasmoreaux.com/

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and the full poem Days Without Water:

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Days Without Water

 

My arms grow weary

under the wheel

Skulls in my pockets

and a mountain up ahead

with flesh and jaw bone

extended

 

I search for his airborne heart

in the crevices of clouds

 

I search for his pure

brave gaze in the way

birds with wing graze

the edge of each rainbow, anew

 

I walk into autumn’s

darkening rays, lonely

as the architecture of church walls,

lonely as the light

in the half-closed eyes

of children

 

I think again of his thin fingers

exhaling tenderness in every blind curve touch

 

He is milk & wind

He is nowhere

to be found

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Copyright © 1995 by Allison Grayhurst

http://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/14/days-without-water/

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