#1838 - old tricks

 

1838

6.10

10.i.25

old tricks

concert piece for Paul Dukas’ ‘L’apprenti sorcier’

 

imagine a magic hat

vast shadow ears under

 

eery chord kick off, the conjure wander

a bucket weary spilling

 

no ordinary course of events

now bent to some devil’s will

 

up bubble lilt

stairs aspiration

 

sleep is catching

what a dream of stars

cloudfall. lightning, sea rise

 

one falls afloat

then axe murder

 

a broom is many, split  

a forest march

 

dire drama, up the pitch

 

ledge edges to a cliff

slow groan

 

here comes the insistence

no turning back

 

white water gurgle hole rafting

 

where in the book may we be saved?

 

almost stall at the catastrophe

 

then hope’s last glimpse

and gone

 

here’s Moses

all wrath and ‘back to work!’

you get a kick in the pants