before earth rushed through your fingers
before I could offer myself to you

Before
What can you give that can never be taken?

Last night I found her amidst muffled cries
I will hold her thin bones against my ample flesh till the quivering
subsides
How will you hold the rare and perilous given you?
Dawn begins in the bones.

from Querencia
by Risa Kaparo
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BEFORE
Poetry by Risa Kaparo and Richard Garcia
Music by Richard Fammerée

Spoken Word Risa Kaparo
Vocals Jose Prieto
Paula Miller
Piano David Ricketts
Cello Cameron Stone
Bass Larry Klein
Accordion Caroline Glass