Video remix of shadow moment by Nic Sebastion. This remix is also viewable on The Poetry Storehouse site. Other spoken word versions: still shadow (crissxross) + some simple shadow (babel)
download: shadow moment mp4 (4.33MB)
unchanging and erect one day
you made the sun reign
a perfect thing
the shadow in its place
was it all for one instant?
some simple touch
to trace your breath
and feel the marks
then in one heavy moment
stopped and made stone again
hold still the shadow
return to watch it all
donÂ’t stop
we try
to hold
touch one perfect moment
and hold still in the sun
an unchanging thing
rain stopped and made
erect for one instant
a heavy stone
was it some simple shadow
all again?
return one day and hold your breath
then trace it into place
watch the shadows you made
don’t we try to feel the mark
and stop it?
was it all for one instant stopped and made
and don’t we try to stop it all again
hold still for one perfect moment
touch some simple unchanging thing
rein the sun and erect a heavy stone
then trace its shadow into place
return one day and hold your breath
watch the shadow fill the marks you made
Recorded and engineered in Edmonton (15 Dec 2008) by Ray Buxton, freelance CBC sound engineer. Keyboards by Dennis Meneely of Tacoy Ryde. Text and voice by runran.
