Dawnings
Inside
By Nicholas Hooper
Close, inside a safe place
as the storm rages outside,
rattling doors, groaning, wayward
then silence as of a breath taken in
before the next outburst of the world’s energy
The scale of such an event
makes inside feel small,
disconnected even as if
the enormity of a weather pattern
reaching, as it does, across the world
lets us know how small we are
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper