Night Vision, poetry by Joanna Lilley, music by Stephen Chatman

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    @joannalilley7689 7 місяців тому

    Such a joy to hear this sung by the marvellous Persephone Singers. I'll always be so grateful to Whitehorse Community Choir and Stephen Chatman for the honour of having my poem set to music. Here's the text of the poem, Night Vision, which is published in my collection If There Were Roads (Turnstone Press).
    Night Vision
    Through the back gate,
    two pairs of eyes in the flashlight,
    fox-height, not coyote,
    between spruces, side by side,
    still as stars. Hand on
    the dog’s back. Let’s not.
    Coyote-height, not fox.
    Back through the gate,
    round the road to the woods.
    Two pairs of eyes electric
    in the flashlight,
    fox-height, or coyote.
    We’ve all shifted, halted
    in a different triangulation.
    Invisible creatures standing
    on leaves and needles.
    The dog’s eyes are on me.
    Will we walk tonight
    between the wide eyes
    of boreal creatures? Not
    coyotes, not foxes, not wolves.
    (copyright Joanna Lilley)