hendeca 2011

aolian
Frost

a
Sapphic
victory

Hogmanay

Nil sa saol seo ach ceo,

Is ni bheimid beo,

ach seal beag gearr.

There is nothing in this life/world but mist,

And we will only be alive

For a short time.
                          - The Secret of Kells

sun

a warm wind

quiet sea

the smell of fresh bread

a slim crescent of attentiveness

my gift to you

engram

Huginn
Muninn

amnesty

once
a year

last moon
wanes

dark jade river
white withered ice

castelmerle

her
above
below

seafarer

she
navigator
tunnel
timekeeper
ochre constellation

follow the water

boxing day

um  conditional
puttering

christmas

humped moon
in bethlehem

sun
yeast

oh glorioso

milagro

the lesions are gone
triple-dosed
you
are
you are
you
are

1633

El Gorrión de Granada

high plaza trees
Andalus, Leibnitz and Christmas rice


20 warm sparrows on a bare bush
flat as a plateau
rise up

시

does good
raises hell
into old age

moon

the eclipse missed
cold rain blind

in between islands

there's a suburban trailer park
lawn and gnome stone garden
weed-free
to mesic wood edge
where dad stands
looking in
I don't know much, he says
and names
scuppernong
mayapple
bloodroot
dozens

Muir

1


DUNBAR     dark sea street


2


Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras*

3


CALYPSO BOREALIS  


Die Heimliche des Nordens
Der Schwarzfahrer
Der Blinde Passagier
       


No other was near it            On all sides

4


EARTH-PLANET, UNIVERSE


Unendlich Schönheit Sturm
An infinite storm of beauty
Unendlich Sturm       aus     Schönheit
                               voll
                               an


5


War and trees burn


SANG SCUPPERNONG

in my purse the seeds and flowers of the earth
trees
think us  worthy of redemption

6


Seeleleben
                       Sierra morado amarillo morado


7


DREAMING  SPRING


8


INSTONATION


9

Fühlt das zerbrechliche Blatt
Am Ast sich einsam,
Wenn die Freunde fallen?


10


la   querencia


11


la querencia


12


la querencia

*chorus II, Ein Deutsches 

Requiem, J. Brahms,op.45, DG

Berlin 1955,Fritz Lehmann,

  1 Peter 1:24, Isiah  40,6-8

Copyright 2005 Marsha McDonald. This  wordpiece was inspired by the life of John Muir, and conceived as part of a collaborative project with composer Steve Nelson Raney and herpetologist Craig Berg.

apparition

juk-bi

two MRIs
blood
urine
drinking chalk
bonescan
curious he said
inside the machines
a mok-tak sound
28
33
he said
as I speak to you
I am drinking
makgeolli
milky white

juk-bi

liminal

anna magdalena

her hand
your hand
Pau had a sapphire on his bow
the notes
are now
holes

simple present

once

ghosts

ghosts

Stellaria media Galium oderata

 Dianthus Daucus carota

Chenopodium album

Weeds                      remnant 

memory    

ghosts

Stellaria media Galium oderata

 Dianthus Daucus carota

Chenopodium album

Weeds                      remnant 

memory    

ghosts

Stellaria media Galium oderata

 Dianthus Daucus carota

Chenopodium album

Weeds                      remnant 

memory    

mindful

in the sun
hear this pen

listen
carefully

now

forgetting

allows

development

of

significance

Doggerland

the feeling
it's all surrounded by water even the water

Harrington beach

the corn in Svalbard seed bank

the fox trotting up the alley

ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY | Sound Science

ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY | Sound Science

hornhinde

it's been done

and undone
and done again

"a change throughout....caused typically by....movements of parts of...."

for instance the

baby's haze of blinding whiteness
might be how the world really is