Aigaios

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As a response to David Ludwig's composition, performed on Wednesday, Aug 25 & titled, 'Aigaios'. That night David explained the piece as a musical interpretation of a scene from 'The Perfect Storm' in which the waters swallow a ship & eventually silence into calm.

There are crows in 
this ceiling 
with wings of ocean
waters and beaks of 
shattered glass. 
They take movement
like waves take 
shadows and fold them.
 
These crows are
greenblue like
sunsets reflected 
on the calm of past
& lasted perfect storms. 
These crows catch long notes 
& draw them.  
Take short notes,
pizzicatos & staccatos;
drop them like 
rain does, like wind does, 
like fear might,
so that they weather 
our shoulders 
and drown our ears. 
These crows,
that are woven like 
stormclouds & are
tempered like thunder 
& bowstrung like 
the cellist, or his lover
the song. 

There are crows in this ceiling
and they're brewing above. 

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