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Theme for the Waterman

from Anthropophonia: Stars and Streams by Anthropophonia

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In streams and in dreams, the boundless future is always pressing towards us. May we evolve to meet it!

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I dreamed that you, my child, were hungry.
And when I awoke, I found it to be true,
And the pain in my belly burned brown and pink and red
And I was consumed.
And though I tried, I could take no meat, nor drink, nor bread, nor fruit,
Not 'til after you had been fed.

I dreamed that you, my child, were cold.
And when I awoke I found it to be true,
And no matter how hard I shook or jumped or jogged or stood,
Before the brightly burning fire,
My own limbs ached with a numbing cold,
So cold that even my breath had the scent of snow covered stones
And though I tried, I could not be warm,
Not 'til you had bathed in the steaming spring waters,
And rested by the fire,
And changed into your finely woven clothes.

Then I dreamed that I was free
And I thought it to be true,
But when I awoke, I found that I was still bound
In chains to the things of this world
And I could not be free,
Not 'til you, my child, came with me to the banks of the river
To the banks that only one week ago
Had been flushed out by the rising flood.
And there on the sand-strewn banks of the flood plain,
You and I placed everything we had ever had to give into the waters.
I watched as everything I owned ascended into the form of a cloud
And floated away toward the East,
While in the river
All the water that ever was in the world
Rushed toward the West,
Toward the great downriver ocean.
And there, in the reflection in your eyes
I could see on the face of the river
The stones began to dance
And the trees began to smile
And for a moment, locked in that gaze,
We were free.

credits

from Anthropophonia: Stars and Streams, released August 8, 2018
Cale Brandley: tenor saxophone, composition
Beth Gillogly: voice
Kimberly Foree: flute
Douglas Davies: contrabass
Daniel Allen: piano
Kaden Hurst: guitar
Jeff Wax: percussion

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Cale Brandley Wilton, New Hampshire

Cale Brandley lives, works, and plays in Monadnock region in Southern Dawn Land, New Hampshire. The music on this site is a roughly hewn mosaic of different times, different places, different people, and different styles--humble draughts from the stream of Eternity. Through it all, there winds a silver thread of Hope, Faith, and Love in the future of humanity and the beauty of the human tone. ... more

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