Name: before word “un sueño de vuelo”
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: Written in December 2016, the poem inspired a collaboration with abstract painter Cynthia Brown. The work was exhibited at Holland Hall in Tulsa, in February 2017; the track art is a photograph of her painting. “un sueño de vuelo” or “dream of flight” recalls our time as a species when we had a greater connection with the spirits of the natural world.

before word “un sueño de vuelo”

from A Prelude Of The Aftermath by Walt Kosty & Ralph Bendel

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Written in December 2016, the poem inspired a collaboration with abstract painter Cynthia Brown. The work was exhibited at Holland Hall in Tulsa, in February 2017; the track art is a photograph of her painting. “un sueño de vuelo” or “dream of flight” recalls our time as a species when we had a greater connection with the spirits of the natural world.

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the poem:

stars were not stars
moon was never moon
the crevices within our eyes
were filled with invocations of light
and of darkness rendered by the absence

on these altars
we placed our hands
carved into stone
molded into clay
these visions

remembering
with faltering clarity
of how we could not
and of how we wanted
but the elusive always won
our hands were brittle
and our wishes faint

we were without arms
winged and unbound
we dreamt of finding sky
rising high above the earth
touching the wind as the cloud
caressed the emptiness within
it was never easy to return
the time that was not
wore us until weary
we arose again from the dust
etching the hollow places
tracing the riverbed

we recorded this passage
of day into night
the hunger of rotting flesh
the smell of blood pooling
we did not question
the squatting man
his transformation
he became turtle
his carapace
made of bone and ash
was the quiet way
of calling home those
still soaring in the flight
of translating shadows

they were found
silenced
and buried
in the deluge
of the coming days
that emptied our souls
spent our fire
and bound us again

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from A Prelude Of The Aftermath, released May 14, 2022
Words written and performed by Walt Kosty (ASCAP-Studio Magnolia)
Music composed, arranged, and performed by Ralph Bendel (ASCAP-Studio Magnolia) using Fender Telecaster and the synthesized instruments of the Roland GR-55; Cheyenne War drum, Chinese wooden bells, and Raonzena. The Painting, “un sueño de vuelo" is by Cynthia Brown.

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