Feature of the Month

VIDEO: Vigil for Iraq: Original music and poetry honoring the dead, the wounded, the grieving, and the dispossessed

David Smith-Ferri and Theresa Whitehill reading poetry

Three Fingers of Light, music by David Smith; lyrics co-written by Smith and Whitehill; sung by the Ukiah Valley Madrigal Singers

http://www.vimeo.com/7472507

Prayer for Iraq, music by David Rounds; lyrics co-written by Rounds and Smith-Ferri; ; sung by the Ukiah Valley Madrigal Singers

http://www.vimeo.com/7465516

Notes: the Ukiah Valley Madrigal Singers performed original compositions by David Rounds and David Smith, with collaborative lyrics by the composers written with poets David Smith-Ferri and Theresa Whitehill; The poets will also read new work (The poem Asmar was written by Whitehill for the event; the lyrics for the song “Three Fingers of Light” composed by David Smith was co-written by Whitehill); Narration by Benj Thomas (Ukiah, CA: Ukiah Players Theatre, producers; Friday, October 16, 2009, 7:00 pm, Ukiah Players Theatre)

THE CARS

Truck in the Woods

THE CARS

The cars have something to do with it—the mystery, the heartache.
It’s a way of thinking, driving. Also a viewpoint and an analgesic.
On my street, cars drive fast because there’s no speed bumps.
The driveway is the entrance to this world. I’m often outside,
weeding my driveway, a joke I make with my friends
who live in lush places with their homes surrounded by forests and gardens.
I own a six-space parking lot, I tell them. People walk past,
bicycles trip the motion detector lights, skateboards, double cab trucks,
in the early summer evenings the aroma of charcoal lighter fluid.
Patrol cars coast down the center of the wide street.
We drive. We fluoresce.