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Received by Angels Singing Like the Birds
(Messiaen, 1992)
Venite...inginocchiatevi &
Susanna's answered
by a Garden Warbler and a Kakapo.
Figaro! Strings, cymbal, wind machine, les ondes--
those bells bells from Assisi.
L'Ange Voyageur steps from Fra Angelico's Annunciation
with his wings unfurled, his feathers
quinticolored red and yellow, blue and green,
and sings: Cantico della creature cantico
glissando Gerygone percussion tuned a new
Noh-Caledonian: What is your name?
Ondeoliver avec offrandes pas oublies.
And suddenly a dawn sky of Skylarks, Orioles
and Lyrebirds, suddenly antiphony
of Icterine and Thrush. Semitone descent from A
as demisemiquaver . . . then
arpeggio of cloud,
tremolo among the shining shaken leaves.
for Kym
--John Matthias
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