Listen to this poem using the player above.
I’m losing my voice today, which has the positive side effect of lowering it by about an octave. This is how I wish my voice always sounded. So I took advantage of this illness to record an audio version of this poem. The music is “The Lady of Khartoum” from the album The Lady of Khartoum (Creative Nation Music, 2008). Thanks to Eric Hofbauer and Garrison Fewell for allowing me to use the music. Buy their album, OK? It’s brilliant.
Always
Who is anyone to say always?
Always is a lie. Perhaps
a white lie, told to stave off
loneliness, to salve the bite
of the onrushing winter
and its gray mornings.
Always is a road with a sharp bend
around which can be seen … nothing.
Nothing at all. And the future rushes
toward us around the corner and we,
for all our best intentions,
are forever unprepared.
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