Vocal loop with spoken word poem - Sunrise at the East River

Sunrise at the East River

Vocal Improv Collaborative - NYC - CircleSong

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Recorded at Jascha's Vocal Group. (Thanks Jascha!) I figured out which poem the engraving reminded me of - Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - part of which is:
"You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves. / Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. / Meanwhile the world goes on. /"

This track is a reply to “SSS Prompt 11: Sing this engraving.” More on the Society for Spontaneous Singing at http://singthis.org .

(The image is a colorized version of an engraving made by the French artist Camille Flammarion in 1888.) 

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