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The White Peacock Cries

from ANCIENT CHAINS by JOHN TERLAZZO & VOICES IN THE HALL

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THE WHITE PEACOCK CRIES
I arrived in moonlight from Macedonia, maybe a thousand years ago – who’s to say? / I wove sheep’s wool for the tribes of Anatolia / Still my chest lies open to the ice & the rain / We dined on carob & figs ‘neath the poplars – spanakopita, rice & great rounds of cheese / You can purchase Paradise, they said, for a few drachmas – But I’ll barter entry on the price of my dreams / Behind each tender, sentient creature / We encounter in that old olive grove / Where the moonlight grows white on those features / A secret is hidden deep beneath the soul / What can be said of misfortune’s strengthening riches? / My moustache drenched in dark wine & tears / The Heart torn & sewn up with stitches / Left to exile on the lonely road to Algiers / And the fires are set in the bloodstream / And the voices knot up deep in the chest / For those giants from the sea and those holy libertines / Let us suckle now at the Great Mother’s universal breast / Behind each tender, sentient creature / We encounter in that old olive grove / Where the moonlight grows white on those features / Within all matter some story longs to be told / Like an Amazon she rises from the ocean / Foam like white skirts hiked high on her thighs / She sways, gleaming, with the most graceful motions / The moon pours down like milk as the white peacock cries / We think we know the tale, the old story / At every turn we bellow it out loud / I want a deathless form of poetry / Unwound & unveiled of its sorrowful shroud…

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from ANCIENT CHAINS, released December 7, 2020

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John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall York, Pennsylvania

Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals, flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi".
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