LOCK THE LAKE AWAY
Poet: Paul Grindlay
TITLE: Lock The Lake Away
INSTRUMENTATION: TTBB a cappella
TIME: 3m45s
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TEXT
Exerpt from "A Winter Tale"
Paul Grindlay
The season locks the lake away
More inaccessibly each day.
Ice quills became plates,
Plates became sheets,
And seams whereat those sheets did meet
Were stitched and sewn up tight
By frigid fingers overnight.
Lake's armour thick did grow.
'Til the iron blue quilt was shot with white
Where crack and crystals glisten bright
In low-angled, glancing light.
Now exiled under ice, the fish,
Steeped in the deep, thick cold exist,
Metabolically suspended
Until the season's spell is ended.
Traduction courtoise
PRORGAM NOTES
An eerie and moody setting of an excerpt of Paul Grindlay's poem, "Lock The Lake Away" sets the scene of a lake that slowly freezes up for winter. First, ice quills; then, plates; then, ice sheets; and finally, everything is sewn up tight for the season. One wonders how the fish feel about it ...