For Joe Catalano, in transformation from this life, May 27, 1998:
(This consists of a simple mix of the last segment of my Spirit
Dreams: Stories of the Singing Masks, with Ione narrating; the Opening
section of riverdream through us; some extractions from the above recording
of Joe at Rose Mountain; and Ione reciting the Heart Sutra in section 5
of Spirit Dreams. The texts for this material follows):
In this silence.
The great stillness.
("Yeah, transformation is wonderful...")
Images emerge from the deep source:
("I'm bringing home... I'm bringing home actually... a pine cone kalimba... 'cause I just found my second true kalimba...")
pine tree...
birds.
All the earth, the air:
rootedness and
flight.
I sing myself to sleep
night after night
my voice becomes choral,
polyphonous:
hope, passion,
blood
chatter
insensate
drumming
stream to the sea
history, people,
the great
the poor
dying
the crackle of paper
names
marching to money
soldiers
flight of geese
a gesture of human warmth
birth
baby's cry
still the moon's mystery
a tree
shaking its needles
receiving birds
past and present
dancing the repetitions
rhythms
of life
death
Oh, yes, I want immortality
the tree in me says
balm of completeness
a sparrow alights on the tip of a branch
together they sway
branch and bird
at the exact moment
a wave of light
moves from behind
the shadow
of a
cloud.
In this silence
the language
of dream
of...
(forever...)
for now...
("yeah, yeah... yeah... I'll go with that... transformation is wonderful...")