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Don Paul, vocal, bodhran, shakers
Kidd Jordan, tenor saxophone
Morikeba Kouyaté, kora

lyrics

What Is There in the Airport Sings
(inspired by Mohammad Iqbal,
written for Shafqat Ali Khan)

What is there in the Airport sings?
What is there here among
Glass, steel, orders, and shiny things?
Where is Ardor? Where Falcon? Dew?
Where are voices of Poetry?

Where is the one I love in Terminals A, B, C, D?
What is there here--Zurich, Frankfort, Heathrow, Gatwick--among
Glass, steel, commands and shiny things?
I see her face among the hurrying strangers.
Her eyes rise and leave me in these strangers.

O, Iqbal, we've been made as blank as we are fast.
You called us to the Great's conquests--
Mahals, Canals, Mathematics, Music.
You called us to Jalal, Rumi, Hafiz, ...
Celebrants of many-flavored
Wines and openings into the heart.
You called us to be restless as the River
Which nurtures Tulips, Roses--Kashmir--Dust.
You called us to know Love's
All-absorbing Flame and embrace.

What is there in the Airport sings?
What is there here among
Glass, steel, orders, and shiny things?
O, Iqbal, what I have from you
Are worlds that flow and flower--
See the swan of silver
Flying from its showcase into a dragon's-breath rainbow--
Among these things.

credits

from Women Center Earth, Sea, and Sky, released January 18, 2016
Recorded at Marigny Studio in New Orleans on July 24, 2014 with Rick G. Nelson as engineer. Mixed by Don Paul and Rick G. Nelson in August 2014. Mastered by Don Paul in November 2015.

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