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Incantation is a plea that we restrain our numbers, before we forget the value of a single human life and overwhelm the whole world. We are doing that now. The wonders of the natural world and the raw beauty and depth of the skies above are both being blotted out by us.

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This is the incantation that rings in the halls of the homeless
Rains down on subway platforms in the dead of winter
Empties into the river and is gone.

The snow last night has buried every one of us
We look up from the hollows where we live
And there on the snowy rooftop
sits the stone Buddha with his eyes downcast
chanting the names of the fallen and the still to fall

Syllables never catch up to the birthrate now.
We are just too many. And born too fast.

sarah and will and james and dina and ian and john and eric
and marie douce and liz and will and sarah and john Michael
and dina and tadhg and james kelly and marie douce, michael
and will and bryan and pierre, raymond and jacques eric and liz
and marie douce

and on and on and on and on
names they tumble, whirling past the streetlights in the night

So many fall. We need more buddhas
to be calling, calling
calling all the wild corners of winter
fall down on your knees

We are the fallen who walk in the halls of the homeless
chanting the names of the present into the past,
like snow melting into the river
the past forgotten as the moment becomes.

This is the incantation that swells in the halls of the homeless
Rains down on subway platforms in the dead of winter
melts into the river and is gone.

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from Dark Sky Preserve, released February 19, 2023
Voice and verse by Ian Ferrier; clarinet and fx by Louise Campbell; mix by Drew Barnet; mastered by Harris Newman.

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Ian Ferrier / Louise Campbell Montreal, Québec

Ian Ferrier and Louise Campbell have been improvising and performing together for the last six years. Ian is a well-known poet, performer and musician; Louise is a musician, composer and improviser.

Dark Sky Preserve is also a book from Clay Grouse Press. It includes the poetry, prose and musical scores for this work. ... more

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