Saturday, February 5, 2011

Throat-Song

The Nightingale, by Grace Ndirtu, 32-second video here

Let your throat-song
be clear and strong enough

to make an emperor fall full-length,
suppliant, at the door.

5 comments:

Ruth said...

Be true. Your song is different than every other.

The Solitary Walker said...

Yes

Louise Gallagher said...

Powerful.

steven said...

yep! let your real call bring the artifice to fall. steven

ds said...

It has, in Egypt, hasn't it...(political)

And how vulnerable the throat is--we are always afraid, trying to protect it (personal)