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Dream to Meet

from The Going Away by Helen Dorothy

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Within the Chatham Islands archipelago lies a remote, regenerating island sanctuary, Mangere, home to some of New Zealand’s rarest plants and animals. Thousands of seabirds visit under the cover of darkness (‘fluttering ghosts’), and insects (‘jointed limbs’) thrive in the absence of rats and other predators.

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Dream to Meet
© Helen Dorothy (2006)

Sinking moon on violet sheet
Soft sedge flowing under feet
Flowering flax the sun to greet
And with the flower, my dream to meet

A thousand shades of green defeat
The shiny skink on boulder heat
And where the vine and branch compete
In misty light, my dream to meet

And high above on rocky pleat
The stormy skua to fear to meet
Wings, on wind, will slice and beat
But swiftly flies my dream to meet

Below, the milky tides retreat
And steely rays the blue fish cheat
Pools, the probing bills deplete
On salty cliffs, my dream to meet

Fluttering ghosts through dusk they sleet
Softly fall, their calls repeat
And corpses, jointed limbs will eat
While gently sleeps my dream to meet

Dark dissolves the day of sweet
Black robin warm, her nest discreet
And in the lichen lining neat
The feather of my dream to meet

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from The Going Away, released April 1, 2009
Helen Dorothy - vocals, acoustic guitar
Richard Prowse - double bass

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Helen Dorothy is “an acoustic folk artist in an honest sense” (NZ Musician, 2009). She writes "beautifully-crafted, intelligent songs rich in memorable imagery" (fRoots Magazine, Jan 2014).

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