Rhytm

The car the truck the engine the chaise
all wheels and rubber metal and grinding
dead dead dying in the garden of Eden
dead body in the yard what to do now
say a prayer get a blanket close the eyes
mourn and call in life yes life come back
come back no no no life gone like the wind
the forever wind blows and heaven calls out
 yer number is up come home number 22
you have work to do up here up here on the
higher levels of spirit Jason McDonald

Death

Death is stalking the island this past winter

so many died it seems an unreasonable number

why who when where and why so many at once

who attended them where is the missing link now

three ladies Brenda Cheryl and the big woman gone

with no goodbyes or explanations as to why now

did they leave by coincidence one two three your next

is someone killing them did they go see the same doctor

you never know fact is stranger than fiction death walks

amongst us and who the hell is the grim reaper here

watch wait listen see pay attention who left; three women

Glen left and Jim and  four more all in the winter months
here on our small island something is wrong I know this

Mozart came to Denman Island

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as 
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart


Wood shapes horsehair bow violin cello
wood brown holes and spaces cello sweet
strings metal four string instruments sing
notes resounding and bouncing of  hearts
blood sinew space chambers beating notes
sound hands fingers space intervals silence

Piano hands dropping one after the other
notes sound pitch precision ocean waves
washing over us the audience breathing one
heart beating mind memory watching hands

This delightful man holds bow with definition

Mozart wrote the score years ago he composed
we fill the hall denman islanders mostly over sixty
Mozart came to denman from  Spain to play for us
He brought his elegant delightful passionate wife

The notes to fill our souls right there right then
my dead brother comes thru the haze of density
from the other worlds of the silent dead forgotten

While music fills expands my soul core I hear
my brother say I am sorry sorry for hurting you
I did not mean to say that cruel word forgive me

Mozart thank you for your dedication to sound
to take violin cello and scores of lines of scales
Mozart came to denman island on a hot summer
evening amidst the haze of far off burning trees
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born on 27 January
1756
to Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) and
Anna Maria, née Pertl (1720-1778), at 9
Getreidegasse in Salzburg.