When the Song Left the Sea
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Hector Martin, nearing sixty, has been recently abandoned by a much younger and wildly troubled woman who has left him with a young son. A solitary man whose interests had been whale gazing, Dvorak, and self-study, finds himself, a reluctant father, nearly paralyzed by this unexpected event.We come to our story with the tenderness of a father's "I love you" or a sad, neglected child's first troubling questions. His sister, with dutiful affection, assumes the role of surrogate mother, while her brother, sitting before an empty grave, 'celebrates' the 'death' of his wife, the source of his final betrayal. We learn that while most flee grief, others seek to transform it. We learn, too, that redemption often comes in unimaginable ways. For everyone has a story, and sometimes they overlap and collide.
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Kevin Ph.D. Hull. When the Song Left the Sea
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2. It is good to know where your life is; to know you are not in control. The horizon is vast and beautiful, the color of a ripe peach
3. where she once moved. in the vacant room. a lingering grace
4. a man travels. beyond his wishes, and what he unlearns. he knows
5. It strikes me that every seed must surrender, crack open and die, into life
6. One morning beauty will crack open a world. and a tiny voice will emerge into the light, singing, beyond languages, the language. of all worlds
7. the silent owl stares into its sorcery . . something tender and fierce. disguised as a bird
8. just floating along . . the white heron poised to strike. among the cattails
9. coffee pot. rusting in the dunes – a birds’ quizzical glance
10. composing his Death poem – he runs out of breath
11. may there be a steady dying. to all that is not of Life, so that my death may honor. all I have lived and grieved, touched and loved
12. love: you step into the mirror. and never return
13. all the years. looking out of windows: phases of the moon
14. the listening season has begun. and the lonely heart lingers
15. picking a lost petal from the curb.. strange and wonderful, life ‘s. tender incompleteness
16 “I” am the barrier. life seeks to overcome. like a river returning to the sea
17. eye to eye. our real kinship. eluding us
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the mind wanders
in its grooves –
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“I must go,” she said cheerfully, ignoring his strange confession, and started walking away. “Good luck, Hector.” She turned, smiling, in a full moving circle, swinging her arms. “And keep writing – if only for me.”
The turquoise sea was pulling back into itself, the cool wild breezes quickening, the air charged with a subtle, incipient restlessness. How far can one go? He was looking toward Panama; perhaps as far as Tierra del Fuego or Brazil, or perhaps even beyond, round the Cape of Good Hope and the Indian sea. Perhaps as far as Conrad’s Malaysia, toward islands of new beginnings among people who had never known the consciousness of sin. Perhaps he might yet find a place to begin anew.
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