All: "Into the Silence"

There's a new movie out -- well, if you live in the Big Apple. It might get to Cinema City, maybe CineStudio at Trinity (a great place to go see a movie, by the way. It's got a balcony!). Perhaps Real Art Ways. (Actually, it is -- beginning May 4th!) Fortunately, there's video, now, so the two or three of us who might want tot se this movie will get a chance to, where it's not economically feasiable other. (That's what they call "The Long Tail", but that's a whole 'nother story.)

Anyway, the movie is called Into Great Silence. It's about a bunch of monks who almost never talk. (Maybe because part of what I do for a living is talk, I'm drawn to the idea of voluntary silence.)

So, that immediately put a musical phrase into my head: "in-to the silence" from one of my top five all-time songwriters, Van Morrison. (If you made me choose a number one, I'd probaly name him.) Of course, I was misremembering the actual lyric, which is "hymns to the silence"

But whatever. Call it kismet, call it serendipity, call it wyrd. I put "into the silence" into Google, and came up with this poem by e. e. cummings.

up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in it

you will(kiss me)go

out into the morning the young
morning with a warm world in it

(kiss me)you will go

on into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in it

you will go(kiss me

down into your memory and
a memory and memory

i)kiss me,(will go)

Now I'm not a huge fan of e. e. cummings, but I thought this one was lovely, and I wanted to share it with you.

(I like to think that certain poems/stories/movies are meant for certain people, and sometimes I'm the postman chosen to make the delivery. So I don't know which of you is supposed to have this, but here it is.)