Things of this World

SA: Love is a ship with sails full blown

TB: Love…. Sails… full… blown… 

SA: A cat confessing the moon, 

TB: … the moon. 

SA: A single footprint, filling with rain, on the edge of an ocean dune. 

TB: love… filling with rain, with rain, with rain

Tutti: Truth is a perfect silver bell

S: a cow dusk-heavy with milk

ATB: Truth is a perfect silver bell

S: the hand of a woman reaching for thread

ATB: Truth is a perfect silver bell, for thread

SA: of cranberry coloured silk

Tutti: Beauty, ah! It’s a goat-skin drum, 

A swan with only one wing (only one wing)

SA: A man who is just beginning to try, 

TB: man, just beginning to try,

S: to use his mouth to sing

ATB: to try, try to sing

Tutti: To use his mouth (to use his mouth) to sing…. 

To sing.