Thank you Stephen. I hope that, and am sure that, the things that need
to be said get said.
I wish it had been like that yesterday. At least we had the Paradisum
section of Faure.
Best,
Jill
On Thursday, May 19, 2005, at 01:12 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> This is wonderful, Jill - and so appropriate for me in that today I
> will
> speak at my father's memorial (a secular gathering) in which one side
> (of
> me) wants to deliver/revive my fathers life and soul into the memory
> of the
> living - and yet the other side, to bid farewell, a communal release
> to 'the
> other side.' You have done that here, so memorably well.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Stephen V
>
>
>> Where, in paradisum?
>>
>> staring into rain
>> memory going north
>> by red brick burrows
>> in paradisum deducant te angeli
>> there’s the grey wing
>> the dark trees
>> decades of sleep
>>
>> over the glassy way
>> left into the river valley
>> this we both know
>> in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres
>> but of the things
>> no-one can know
>> can we sing?
>>
>> cypresses out of place
>> out of any place
>> out of body and history
>> et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem
>> here’s the carpark
>> the unknown familia
>> the white ladies
>>
>> sorry, these are lies
>> two black crows
>> the mischief knows
>> chorus angelorum te suscipiat
>> finally a sedative response
>> truth stays outside
>> we’d go there
>>
>> wooden, concealed
>> beyond drone and lists
>> beyond any more capture
>> et cum Lazaro quondam paupere
>> sickness in the blood
>> age’s close down
>> hides any bruise
>>
>> say not
>> say
>> ay
>> aeternam habeas requiem
>> rescue
>> now the sun
>> on the living
>>
>> (D.E.W. 1931-2005)
>>
>>
>> Jill Jones
>> Northern Suburbs Crematorium, 1pm, 18 May 2005
>>
>>
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Latest books:
Broken/Open. Available from Salt Publishing
http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710416.htm
Where the Sea Burns. Wagtail Series. Picaro Press
PO Box 853, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282. [log in to unmask]
Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press)
http://www.wildhoneypress.com
web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones
blog1: Ruby Street http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/
blog2: Latitudes http://itudes.blogspot.com/
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