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Stella Kola

by Stella Kola

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1.
Rosa 02:54
A woman of the world under another sun, She must set out while towers fall As love passed by, she waits an equal time But on a cushioned throne in the heart of Amichetto And the man of the mind is left behind As victory leaps free To be healed by another time Rosa, red Rosa in Italy All around the town with a gondolier, She rides in a Bugatti back to Napoli To see the saint who cried a diamond tear A Pair of perfect pearls formed in a shining shell, Through history they pass from ear to ear The sky blue eye sees more than tongue can tell The waves that lap between the boat & pier Rosa, red Rosa in Italy All around the town with a gondolier, She rides in a Bugatti back to Napoli To see the saint who cries a diamond tear
2.
First Fret 03:09
I think of my life From the beginning to the end And this time presses so close around But those times are laid deep in the ground Those times that once were now, They are lost, Whether they were happy or sad And my memories can't be trusted, And my guesses for the future Just evaporate before they form, Just a vague sense of an impending storm, Just the hope for something kind & warm Like a child deep in a mine, What are the treasures there for me That I can't see or find? And I don't dare open my eyes But will it protect me to be blind?
3.
Epiphany 01:37
Epiphany is a holiday When things come easy, gold and green There is a lady in the stars Too tiny to be seen Mother & child will bloom in a smile When you heed the sign and do not pass And the morning will feel just like a highland reel In the dappled shade on a bed of grass And all week long in the heart of my mind, Puzzles and riddles expand and unwind Epiphany, Epiphany A dearer friend you'll never find
4.
Feeling like I set out too soon, Immersed in strange confusions It must be the moon That draws the tide of me Lost in the mirror of vanity, The planisphere celeste Led out on stage undressed Before the dreaming crowd The moon has no light except from the sun And i see the stars when they come undone, The flood of delights that spills from the sky The Augustine light as the pale becomes bright, The luminous dew on the pathway to you
5.
Your stern advisors closely lean But beneath your skirt is a future scene What you know is bold & true, Beneath the wind a lily blooms To lean into the swing of life, The gaze of a contented wife, The freedom of a whippoorwill Who wanders over dale & hill The flowers tended carefully Together raised but what is free? You know the secret of the hand, Held still within the promised land The plan began before you knew, What you wanted others wanted too A prize for each to have their own, For every queen to have a throne A quest, a kingdom and a day, The star of an enchanted play Sprung up along the rim of time, In company of every kind Bathed in glowing yellow light, The quiet thrill that holds hearts tight The penny brings good luck all day Therefore you know just what to say For tricks & schemes are planned to please, Excitement that will end in ease
6.
November 02:54
Autumn wind shakes free the leaves And so in winter's depths rejoice the trees What the sun may give so may give the ground, Retreating to a world without a sound The blessing of the restful cold In secret corridors of unseen gold Life's sister is a death so deep and true Whose arms already are embracing you Waiting to take you from the mortal coil, Where eternity abides within the soil The bright & sweet delight to be alive, Great too it is to never move or strive To be the diamond of the mineral state, The pearl that glimmers in the Heaven's gate Fly on - to Journey's End, The fate of foe & friend The arrow true to mark, The coming of the Dark
7.
Summer Night 02:14
Hey baby, go to sleep, A summer night is fine For sleeping Hey baby, go to sleep, A summer night is fine For sleeping A summer night is fine To read by the bedside light, A summer night is fine On the porch with friends of mine A summer night is fine To tidy up the kitchen Hey baby, go to sleep, A summer night is fine For sleeping Hey baby, go to sleep
8.
Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake; that's fairly mixed With, riddles, and is rife In every least thing's life This needful, never spent, And nursing element; My more than meat and drink, My meal at every wink; This air, by which life's law, My lung must draw and draw Now but to breathe its praise, Minds me in many ways Of her who not only Gave infinity Dwindled to infancy Welcome to womb and breast, Birth, milk and all the rest But mothers each new grace That does now reach our race - Mary Immaculate, Merely a woman, yet Whose presence, power is Great as no goddess's Was deemed, dreamed, who This one work has to do - Let all glory through, Glory which would go Through her and from her flow Off, and no way but so. I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air: the same Is Mary, more by name. She, wild web, wondrous robe, Mantles the guilty globe, Since God has let dispense Her prayers his providence: Nay, more than almoner, The sweet alms' self is her And men are meant to share Her life as life does air
9.
Tarot Song 02:08
The fray and all its flies to shoo, To tame the heart is something new Love blooms with the ascending dove And makes the healing waters flow The sky gave shelter from above, The flame is seated here below Goodbye cruel world with sparing care, And all's called up to breathe the air The charger with triumphant plumes Will fill the world with sweet perfume
10.
The heart pierced in the rain Perceives the man who looks away, For you refused the cup of love And saved it for another day Your steed alive from underneath But you are fit enough to wait, In stillness you are quite alive And fierceness is a welcome trait Dancing forward and yet looking back, When burdens lend misgivings Dethroning kings, descending far Escape the prison in the tower By falling with the shooting star
11.
Fair youth and dark lady, Rivals in eternal verse And which is worse - To live forever, Or living to be mortified? You need more lace in your life, More chantilly shadows at night, Fly into my eyes with your sight The spin within the fountain flight Past my own nose, Dressed in your clothes, Are you the answer to who I am?
12.
Wednesday 03:15
Grace and beauty intertwined, Serenely too, they float apart The swans among the lotuses Don't know the terrors of the heart, The agonizing of the mind, Or even the designs of art We walk on water thinking that It's really just a path we tread In mystic robes, in hallowed halls, Turn off the lights and go to bed Dear friend, your letters light my face And bring me in below your wing, The subject of a mighty king And bright awake from restful sleep, The humor of all zest will leap For you have contemplated all, While some rushed in with no recall A heart at love, a heart at risk, Set still before the whirling disk And destinies of every kind, Transform the meaning of the mind
13.
Frayed at the ends but still a string, I'll tie on to anything Being, being, being Is a beggar's blessing Wilted and watered and tattered and torn, Alphabetical order in the eye of the storm Soar to the center where the water is warm Over and under and shaven and shorn, Overgrown and hung over On a sweet spring morn And the tints and the hues Are the colors I choose, When the lake tide at noontime Is washing in fish and wine For all you ever said to me Was prophecy
14.

credits

released February 3, 2023

Beverly Ketch - vocals & lyrics
Robert Thomas - acoustic guitar, percussion
Jeremy Pisani - nylon string guitar, synths
Wednesday Knudsen - flute, saxophone, vocals, piano
P.G. Six - 6 & 12 string guitar, Celtic harp, synths, organs, keys, slide
Jen Gelineau - viola & violin
Jim Bliss - bass
Willie Lane - electric guitar
Gary War - synth, synth bass
Noah Bond - drums
L. Gray - acoustic & electric guitar

Engineered & mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton, Ma
Additional engineering by Stella Kola
Mastered & lacquers cut by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering
Artwork, design & layout by Liz Durette

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