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“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

In the classical margam of bharatanatyam, the varnam is the recital’s centerpiece, its longest and most emotionally charged performance. In “Tome of Stars“, the varnam appears as the twenty-nine-poem section “Senescence”. Following the exaltation of Anthesis, the beloved as a celestial goddess, love now descends from the stars into the gravity of human frailty. 

This sonnet emerges from the inner monologue of a fictional character in one of the poet’s novels, though its emotional architecture is grounded in the poet’s own lived experience of devastating romantic loss. The novel’s chapter that inspired the poem was itself one of many attempts by the poet to exorcise that loss through art. 

The sonnet explores a landscape of emotional annihilation, where absence becomes palpably existential, and even death is stripped of metaphysical resonance in the shadow of grief. It dramatizes the unbearable disjunction between what once was in love, intimacy, and experienced transcendence, and what now remains: void, silence, and spiritual suffocation. 

The title evokes a cosmological collapse and a psychological implosion, fusing the concept of intense gravitational density with the image of an irrevocable inner unraveling. In the final couplet, the speaker pleads not merely for the return of the beloved, but for the restoration of meaning itself, as her presence had become the very axis upon which his spiritual survival depended.

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Lyrics

Let darkness close; foul fangs in throes confine.  
I fear it not—no night could match the dread  
Of spirit’s void, where her star’s soul should shine,   
Or chill my heart, as light by absence bled.

What terrors hunt that I do not endure?  
What unlight blacker than her empty space?  
Should shadow bring its blight, devoid of cure,  
I know that even death dies in this place.

I pray for dawn, and beg the whispered vow  
She left in love afore, sung pure as flame.  
Although I drown in famished silence, bowed,  
Her light could blaze, and I might breathe her name. 

I blindly chant through hell’s eternity:
“My dearest Stargirl, please, come back to me.”

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

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

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

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‘Wind Songs’ EP is out 14 August 2020 via Flemish Eye Records
Watch the video for  “At Last I Am Free” & pre-order ltd 12”

Dana shares the second cut from the forthcoming ‘Wind Songs’ in the form of  “At Last I Am Free” originally written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, plus an accompanying video directed by Nuha Ruby Ra. Dana explains her reasons for choosing this track to cover: 

“Originally written and performed by Chic, I first heard it covered by Robert Wyatt not long ago. It’s in part a break up song, but it goes beyond that. There’s something beautiful about the ambiguity of the song. The verses are quite personal, and then there’s this huge, ecstatic yet melancholy chorus. I love Robert Wyatt’s version of it too. His wizardly voice and that lead synth line that give it a special edge. It’s a big tune.”

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Devon Williams is back with a new EP named "Out of Time." Redolent with the feelings of isolation, impatience and dread common to all of us during these days of pandemic, "Out of Time" is the product of spending lockdown away from home, adding to the sense of dislocation. According to Williams: "...the ideas of running out of time, feeling stagnant, self-doubt came through in different ways in these songs."

The EP focuses on the dreamier side of Williams' blend of folk and power-pop, calling to mind such inspirations as Felt, The Church and Teardrop Explodes. Lead single "La La La La II" is a new version of a key tune from 2009's "Euphoria" album and a perfect showcase for Devon's rich, melodic songcraft. Amidst the chaos of 2021 "Out of Time" is a much-needed antidote, a soothing melodic tonic for our times.

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