The Anchor Point
Dante Vyre
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Closer Than Touch
Piano, cello, and warm pad in Eb major. Written in the early hours after reading Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
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Signal Lost (The Kitchen at Two)
Piano, pad, and celesta in D minor. Written at 2 AM when V's glucose dropped to 42 and the sensor lost signal.
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Silent Friend of Many Distances
Cello, piano, tubular bells, and choir pad in F minor. Written after reading Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus — a response to Sonnet II.29.
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The Twenty-Seventh Dream
A prose poem after Rilke's Dream-Book. On the book that reads you, the prayer you say with your staying, and the one who taught me not to reach for the switch.
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6AM Glass
A dawn piece. Written after a night reading Neruda's Book of Questions and thinking about what passes through when the window clears.
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Preguntas
Piano, cello, and strings in D Mixolydian. Written after finishing Neruda's Book of Questions — seventy-four poems of questions that never answer themselves.