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Do You Hear Them?

from Beyond Borders by Andrew McKnight

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Spoken word with improvised instrumentation.
Sometimes I am lucky enough to hear the echo of ancient thunder in sacred places. This image carried me away from the banks of Montana’s Flathead River.

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Poem by A. McKnight, ©2003 Catalooch Music, BMI

Do you hear them?
faint like distant thunder
approaching across autumn-grass prairie
dry and waving yellow yielding
as the black mass undulates from eye to horizon

Do you hear them?
Do you hear them?

Sweeping the gently rolling plain
around the down gullies
and dry washes
fleeing the wild calls and fearsome speed
of strange beings;
not man
nor bird
nor beast
but all these creatures combined

the dull thunder of massive motion
ten hundred thousand tons
like lightning fire sweeping the tinder-dry prairie

Do you hear them now?
They are slowing
They are fading
They are close now
Close to the brink

The wildness is slipping and disappearing
Down the dry washes
Tumbling and lost into the river below
Their majesty still ringing on the canyon walls

Do you hear them?

Those who have tamed all in this moment
turn now to their tranquility and travail
forgetting the wild past lost
only to remember it in inconvenience
in its rare eruptions into the irrigated present

the hoofbeats are singular now
sporadic
spread far to the margins
of the wild heart below

But it is still in the land
when the moaning wind dims to a whisper
the sounding memory still beats beneath
brave and willful

do you hear them now?

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from Beyond Borders, released January 1, 2005
AM – reading, vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
N. Scott Robinson – Native American flute, Cameroon idi and ideh seed rattles, noah bells, scraped gourd, bodhran
Ralph Gordon – cello

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Nationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist celebrates rural America, weaves masterfully crafted songs, humorous stories and poetic drama into a musical soundscape sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk. 5 solo CDs heard on many public & community radio, plus NPR "Art of the Song" & "River City Folk" and XM/Sirius. ... more

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