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
Querencia
by Risa Kaparo
What can you give that can never that can never be taken?
He felt suspicious of this woman,
of the yes she lived unambivalently,
of the distance she traveled that he
had never known.
How could he know of the years that yes
grew within her
the way a bamboo leaf bends under the weight of mounting snow?
How could he trust it?
How could he trust it?
Seeing only the sudden slide of snow,
how could he trust it to the ground
and the leaf not stirred?
Hold onto yourself when everything stands invisible
She once hurt so bad
A safe place
Querencia
I will hold your thin bones against my ample flesh
till the quivering subsides.
Thirty years the little one remains in hiding
children who buried themselves neck deep
venturing into the forest by night
when everything stands invisible.
How could he trust it?
Seeing only the sudden slide of snow
to the ground and the leaf not stirred.
Hold onto yourself when everything stands invisible
She once hurt so bad
A safe place
Querencia
Hold onto yourself
She once hurt so bad
Afraid she’d spill
Querencia
Last night I found her amidst the muffled cries
I will hold her thin bones till the quivering subsides
How will you hold the rare and perilous given you?
Querencia
Hold to yourself
When everything stands invisible
Hold on to yourself
Searching for that sacred space
Querencia
Dawn begins in the bones
Hold on to yourself
Querencia
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QUERENCIA
Poetry and Lyrics by Risa Kaparo
Music by Richard Fammerée, David Ricketts, and Sophie Barker
Spoken Word Risa Kaparo
Vocals Sophie Barker
Drums Pete McNeil
Bass Dave Wilder
Percussion Alex Acuna
EBow/Drums/Keys/
Acoustic Guitar David Ricketts
Keys Mike Rowe
David Tickle
Acoustic Guitar Richard Fammerée
Trumpet Steve Dubey
