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Nov 2012
In pigeon light
this damp day
settles itself
into lamp-room grey.
 
The trees intone
farewell farewell:
An autumnal valedictory
to reluctant leaves.
 
Yet a few remain
bold coloured
 
Porphry Pink
Fox Red
Fowler
Sudbury Yellow

 
hanging by a thread
they turn in the stillest air.
 
Then fall
Then fall
This short part-song takes the very distinctive titles found in the Farrow & Ball Colour Chart as an element of its poetic vocabulary. In the natural world November is a season of the subtlest colouring; as we say a final farewell to the often bold tints of autumn. This is the first of Twelve Colours of the Year for 4 part choir.
Nigel Morgan
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Nigel Morgan  Wakefield, UK
(Wakefield, UK)   
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