s91iii | Spring Libretto 2025

Push chalk into every gouge then
rub gold leaf roughly eight weeks

mess no more till the score hums
à cappella tap freshwater gesso

ochre glue hinderment notch your
trajectory at the ramparts of Troy

a Persian satrap quite some oyster
unentitled insolent sub-thematic

enshrinement in material reserve
light grey blue vista amazement

application deridden unfinished
critico-historico decades Vorspiel

recapitulation processual interval
pour straight in swirling tumblers

da Vinci i Van Eyck 's sempiternal
tableaux everybody's blotter-eyed

your thought on wine dark spume
scraped festoons, ad hoc captions

[shibuida na] never spill for love
or money overpainting trivia just

give them the opus numbers plain
wrapped objects blessed sounds

grainy orgiastic regent soft suite
Viking fotos lashing frothy moor

onshore waves her slippery disk
in epic nineteenth cen. emulsive

Érōs (ἔρως) hazards endearing
Ellena Iaconia enthuse plastics

caryatid guild entablatures their
Bayt Lauem Urheimat impératif

head over reason ascencio claro
bang appeal or scowl assumption

lakeside forest lodge it's not just
suave idyllic butter constructivist

twentieth cen. eros (έρως) Das
Herzquelle canvas intrepid crisp

northwest salty sea swell charts
ply scented prows misty Opera

minora billowed sails endlessly to
Telos rocky foamy sprays endless

clashes overcleaned patinas tilted
windmills bounded apart emotive

timbre slipstreams pans for dusty
gold scales lean premptive tower

slips through embrasures veers
north into highland inlet lakes

anabasis red fox beaver stream
neolithic accompaniment suites

Italo romance horn and strings
kept us up past midnight's vigil

in umbra Hindemith arrives for
the Florentine Maggio Musicale

tedium tablatures rise late date
slender pale Kurdish girl from

Trovatrici ensemble known for
black & red passacaglia naked

protests in pirate hats trashing
French horns di Fargo maniac

outliers exchange rough cantatas
for melodic figures bursting into

flames insisting on richer more
scenic grandure she blisters the

impresario he bears all damage
irate nuns free warlock dancers

sprinting into wavedash unifying
respiration lips to lips impulsing

vessels spurred to disagreement
share proportions fewer arrivals

in regalia plainchant lunging
headlong eclipsing the kettle

finishing line who would have
sung such unsound plainchant

cordial stain soaked locutions
rejected by all crescendi order

atop the broadest woven linen
drawn across the whole cavea

blue silver tarnish ampitheatric
swept offstage in dissidence he

clasps his stave forecasting seed
immortal peak before orchestral

collapse in sunken glossy-eyed
obscurity melancholic diffident

whisperings to distant tímpanis
resinous double pizzicato echos

amid this shadowy main deck
stage this brave tenor croons:

"Westwärts schweift der blick
ostwärts streicht das Schiff..."

Vision rambles westward
and eastward sweeps the craft…

sweetly oily fruity trickles…
soft love warms an irritated heart

but not this untamed one it's all
about to come out bring me

a harpist you don't even need to
open your mouth stand tall in this

Nordic funkis watchtower its
lookout sees what's exhaustively

shallow taken captive as a young
girl by a band of raiders without

exception predicting success. She
was traded for gold in Ophir. "Tell

me what you want, I will place it
in your hand this day." Skies grew

black with clouds the wind rose he
was longing for trouble that very

day in a camp of celebrities
she rests her ear on her transistor

(typographic overscore libretto
to J. C. Gomes de Oliveira 2012)

(s91iii)