From the album Beauty & Ruin, out June 3, 2014 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/beauty-and-ruin

Beauty & Ruin

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The third section of “Tome of Stars“ is “Sporogenesis“ , a haphazard chronicle of the years 2011–2020.  It marks a shift from the cataclysm of “Senescence“  into a period of withdrawal and emotional hibernation, its eleven sonnets seeking to reflect the padam of the collection’s bharatanatyam-inspired structure. 

In “Padam”, the poet opens “Sporogenesis” with a sonnet that merges the aesthetic language of classical Indian dance with the emotional register of personal loss. The speaker observes a divine dancer named Shringara, whose name invokes one of the highest rasas in Indian aesthetic theory: the sentiment of love, particularly as expressed through longing, separation, and divine union. As such, the dancer becomes a symbolic embodiment of shringara rasa, a living articulation of sacred love transformed by grief. Her movements, once ecstatic and radiant, have slowed into mournful lament. The poem takes a dual perspective, considering cosmic and emotional landscapes, on a love that once carried mythic force but has since disintegrated into sorrow and fragmentation.

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Lyrics

Shringara’s dance, once swift, now softly wanes,
Her pinions furled, she weaves a lovelorn song:
Two spirits twined by fate’s resistless chains,
Spark arcane flames—a bond both fierce and strong.

Lithe limbs with love caress the endless skies,  
Yet sorrow stings her eyes with winter rain. 
Reborn fate’s dungeons, lovers’ last goodbyes,
Rend hearts enveloped in unending pain.

She writhes in torment, star split in the dark,
Her silent scream stretched stark through timeless space.
Grand galaxies are maimed with glowing marks. 
Marred adoration weeps upon her face.

At last, I grasped the pattern in her stars,
And Shiva laughed: her story now was ours.

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars



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