Lied for countertenor and piano. Interpreted by Alan Marcus

Marigold Place

This is humanity at its best--  
Look!
The tree line is emerging
From the  fog on the lake.

Pontiac Lake

Calmha

2003

Study no. 9 for string quartet.

Cevadi Furugi and strings

1989 Repetitions

Unreleased album "Music for Riders." 2013.

Outro

Classroom

The blackboard is about to be scratched. 
Kings, dates and maps, on a wall
obstruct a vision of the [past;
human understanding dissolves--
kidnapped by the ebb
of a wife's desire to go home. 

Like arrows over a curtain wall
the teacher spits over constellations
metric  systems that freeze
the universe unto units of boredom--
the standstill of the knowhow. 
We are highfalutin because
we think we know; in a school for boys
you learn the things of schools for boys.

We are sled dogs here. Our paws are cold. 
We chew on anything and jostle
until the straw on the floor
reveals the tiles. This stable is a farce. 

We invent a muscular dance
against the teacher's cold. 
We encircle an invisible shrine
within the room that is a box
while our orbit pumps ancestral blood
that calls upon the Yukon trail. 

We howl. You can see
our steamy breath. This 
is no serpent eating its tail;
we tickle dreams with fuel.

A.X. Marcus

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