FAUSTINE - Song for the rainy season

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FAUSTINE - Premier Album Mars 2015

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Song For The Rainy Season
By Elizabeth Bishop

Hidden, oh hidden
in the high fog
the house we live in,
beneath the magnetic rock
rain-, rainbow-ridden,
where blood-black
bromelias, lichens,
owls and the lint
of the waterfalls cling,
familiar, unbidden.

In a dim age
of water
the brook sings loud
from a rib cage
of giant fern ; vapor
climbs up the thick growth
effortlessly, turns back,
holding them both,
house and rock,
in a private cloud.

At night, on the roof,
blind drops crawl
and the ordinary brown
owl gives us proof
he can count:
five times--always five--
he stamps and takes off
after the fat frogs that,
shrilling for love,
clamber and mount.


House, open house
to the white dew
and the milk-white sunrise
kind to the eyes,
to membership
of silver fish, mouse,
bookworms,
big moths; with a wall
for the mildew's
ignorant map;


darkened and tarnished
by the warm touch
of the warm breath,
maculate, cherished;
rejoice! For a later
era will differ .
(O difference that kills
or intimidates, much
of all our small shadowy
life!) Without water

the great rock will stare
unmagnetized , bare,
no longer wearing
rainbows or rain,
the forgiving air
and the high fog gone;
the owls will move on
and the several
waterfalls shrivel
in the steady sun.

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from FAUSTINE - 1er ALBUM, released June 23, 2015
Faustine Audebert - Elizabeth Bishop
from THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Used by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux LLC. All rights reserved

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Faustine Audebert: chant, clavier, compositions
James Mac Gaw: basse
Hélène Brunet: guitare électrique
Nicolas Pointard: batterie

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