Five A.M. "after Allen Ginsberg" - Michael Brown - Nicholas Canellakis

Five A.M. "after Allen Ginsberg" for cello and piano (2009)
Composed by Michael Brown

Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Michael Brown, piano

Recorded at the Rose Studio at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

www.michaelbrownmusic.com
www.nicholascanellakis.com


Five A.M.
by Allen Ginsberg

Elan that lifts me above the clouds
into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
Breath transmuted into words
Transmuted back to breath
in one hundred two hundred years
nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries
of cadenced breathing -- beyond time, clocks, empires, bodies, cars,
chariots, rocket ships skyscrapers, Nation empires
brass walls, polished marble, Inca Artwork
of the mind -- but where's it come from?
Inspiration? The muses drawing breath for you? God?
Nah, don't believe it, you'll get entangled in Heaven or Hell --
Guilt power, that makes the heart beat wake all night
flooding mind with space, echoing through future cities, Megalopolis or
Cretan village, Zeus' birth cave Lassithi Plains -- Otsego County
farmhouse, Kansas front porch?
Buddha's a help, promises ordinary mind no nirvana --
coffee, alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, marijuana, laughing gas?
Nope, too heavy for this lightness lifts the brain into blue sky
at May dawn when birds start singing on East 12th street --
Where does it come from, where does it go forever?

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[jefflpanther]

Great piece, but you're wrong about Beethoven!

[petermyerscello]

awesome!!!