The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

September 20, 2009


two,jennifer.


http://www.alansondheim.org/sazsez1.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/sazsez2.mp3

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and here are two, says jennifer
and there's a silhouette in the sky, cloaked rider on a horse
and the maiden with pigtails looks on intently
and the sky is stormy, the rider approaches
and her lips part
and the rider gathers the maiden in his arms
and the rider parts
and the rider has swallowed the maiden with her parted lips
and a woman appears
and she is the maiden with the parted lips
and she looks down from a rocky crag
and she walks down a rocky pathway
and a man takes her into his arms
and the scene fades to black
and here is the scene, says jennifer
and i am glad to be back, she says, to say this
and jennifer's lips are parted and she is about to speak
and jennifer is about to stop speaking, and her lips part
and jennifer parts from us, saying as she leaves, here are two
and here are two, says jennifer

"Dance of the Soul's Journey"

by Zourna


The soulless body (1)

Asks for the light of life (2)

Vision dawns (3)

Inexpert in life, she walks gropingly (4)

She draws aside the veil of the future (5)

Life is seen full and plenteous (6)

But old age will come (7)

Grief will visit (8)

She shall walk with her nose close to the camel's foot (9)

Yet now, from the crown of her head (10)

To the souls of her feet she is perfect (11)

Rejoices in the perfect body (12)

And in all good things (13)

Runs from the scene (14)



Arabian "Dance of Mourning"

by Zourna


The body approaches (1)

The body passes (2)

"I hold my sorrow to myself" (3)

"He has gone out of the house and up to Heaven" (4)

"Farewell" (5)

"He slept in my arms" (6)

"The house is empty" (7)

"Woe is in my heart" (8)


(from The Dance, Troy and Margaret West Kinney, 1914)

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