Latest / Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast / Phonograph
Transcript
- 0:01SPEAKER_00: Phonograph.
- 0:03SPEAKER_00: The scribbled voice of spinning sound rings with words,
- 0:08SPEAKER_00: in words writ down,
- 0:10SPEAKER_00: the voice which twelve apostles knew,
- 0:13SPEAKER_00: the voice which all creation too shakes and shudders quick and still when you sound
- 0:20SPEAKER_00: and speak your will.
- 0:23SPEAKER_00: Praise sleeping rocks and drowsy trees, whose bare branches wait to leave.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: Wave your limbs, praise with birds, sing lauds, you heavens.
- 0:34SPEAKER_00: Declare the word, and skies his work, the depths of sea, till every creature praises thee.
- 0:42SPEAKER_00: Stars which shine when called by name,
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: the voice which writes on hearts in flame,
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: fuels love,
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: impassions,
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: speaks with peace,
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: phonograph your word in me.
- 0:56SPEAKER_00: You who shapes the heart of kings, write love on mine.
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: Make me sing.