Keening

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A poem from 'When We Wake We Think We're Whalers from Eden' (Stairwell Books 2021) by Bob Beagrie.

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Keening
(During the third lockdown)

Because for the time being
the rain has stopped and each room
of the house is a dumb whirlpool
I take the path beside Bluebell Beck,
deep standing water and mud
have deterred other travellers,
there’s a deceptive distance
within this thin crease that cuts
through estates from the bound centre
out towards the perimeter, the brown beck
chugs and wallows, reflecting density,
clouds patterned by gulls, laced by
searching twig-tips, my tyres plough
through the sludge, my daughter’s sobs
stinging my ears, it’s her day to feel
the weight - or the weightlessness -
of being set adrift on days that have lost
definition, she said it felt like grief,
so I told her it was natural and good
to mourn the loss of contact, the easy
cuddle and the kiss on the cheek
with those you love, the smell of skin
the firmness of a held hand, the winding
beck sings and dances between trees
that wear heavy sleeves of bright moss,
I think they’re voguing in a foregone frolic
so stop to view the imperceptible creep,
stroke one damp branch as if it were
the arm of a dear friend or family member
who exists in a different bubble,
no, I don’t cry but the sigh that escapes
my lip is ragged and raw, I watch
it go flitting, trilling, through foliage
flashing its blood-stained burning breast.

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released August 9, 2021
Poem by Bob Beagrie
Violin by John Dunleavy
Recorded, mixed and mastered by S.J. Forth
Book cover image by Gail Henderson

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Project Lono Middlesbrough, UK

Project Lono is a collaborative collective of musicians and poets experimenting with audio scapes that blend verse, storytelling, song, music and live and recorded sound effects.

The Shrouded Republic has been created by Bob Beagrie, Sara Dennis, Kev Howard, Peter Lagan, John Dunleavy and SJ Forth.

Band picture by Kev Howard.
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