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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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