elegy for Michelle Marriott
singing voice ekphrastic
singing voice ekphrastic
     Matilda's   Miss  Honey
     lovely   teacher   strong
enough to carry
all the heavy things
sweet feminine flower
tu nous manques*
you me your dog
impromptu cabin
enough to carry
all the heavy things
sweet feminine flower
tu nous manques*
you me your dog
impromptu cabin
     sugar       pine       forest 
giant cones glisten
giant cones glisten
     fire      road     to      San
     Antonio                   Falls 
     the        highest      peak
above Los Angeles
near San Bernardino
above Los Angeles
near San Bernardino
     together       reminiscing
how you charmed
the horse stable men
and we all benefitted
how you charmed
the horse stable men
and we all benefitted
     La    Bamba    serenades
under third floor windows
     fresh three am croissantsunder third floor windows
     Aix-en-Provence      now
     afternoon     of      granite
     quartz     igneous      rock
     San   Gabriel   Mountains
     runs    river    cool   water
     the  end  of  last  summer
     magic  in  found  feathers 
     columbine's   bitter  seed
     eagle   claw    valley  heat
     dead  opossum   at  shed
     mort          trop         jeune
     lime    tree    after   chemo
     doctors     foretell     death 
     scary     childhood     story
     (they  didn't  believe  you!!)
     singing   voice   ekphrastic
     Matilda's     Miss      Honey
     teacher      brave     enough
     to     fight     the    creatures 
     sweet      feminine     flower
     tu         nous        manques*
*we miss you
FYI a couple lines above are borrowed lyrics of Miss Honey's song from Matilda the Musical (based on book by Roald Dahl) - you can find the song here at end of remix (Tony Awards 2013) http://youtu.be/A06-8IWjFSE
photo: Aquilegia formosa at San Antonio Falls/Mt. Baldy CA 8/31/13

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