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Michael Stephenson - Three Owen Poems: ii Cramped In That Funnelled Hole

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ii Cramped In That Funnelled Hole

I wanted the feeling of the music to be oppressive and smothering, cramped and suffocating. The piano and soprano form a sort of alliance, pitted as they are against the forces of the heavy electronic backing effects. The 2 verses of the poem are introduced and interspersed with the thudding, percussive interludes. The work ends in an imagined cold, majestic, though hopeless, sunrise.

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II. Cramped In That Funnelled Hole
Cramped in that funnelled hole, they watched the dawn
Open a jagged rim around; a yawn
Of death’s jaws, which had all but swallowed them
Stuck in the bottom of his throat of phlegm.
They were in one of many mouths of Hell
Not seen of seers in visions, only felt
As teeth of traps; when bones and the dead are smelt
Under the mud where long ago they fell
Mixed with the sour sharp odour of the shell.

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from .​.​.​because it's spring, released December 5, 2011
Debbie Bridge Soprano, Adam Swayne Piano

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