music set to the words of Gary Snyder.
Kevin Flanagan - alto sax & spoken word, squeeks, occasional clicks
Dave Gordon - paino, prepared piano, assorted small sounds
Andy Brown - bass, scratchy bits, ki
Russ Morgan - drum kit, percussion, even smaller sounds, chi
1. Riprap (6.45)
2. Invitation (6.30)
3. Maverick Bar (5.32)
4. A Walk (5.22)
5. The Rainy Season (6.56)
6. The More I See You (4.42)
7. For/From Lew (5.03)
8. Isotope (3.58)
9. Blue Mountain Walking (4.47)
RIPRAP
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
In space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
Straying planets,
These poems, people,
Lost ponies with
Dragging saddles
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
North Point Press 1965
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