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A Black November Turkey Lyrics by John Corigliano

Two Richard Wilbur Settings

1973

Nine white chickens come
With haunchy walk and heads
Jabbing among the chips, the chaff, the stones
And the cornhusk-shreds
And bit by bit infringe
A pond of dusty light
Spectral in shadow until they bobbingly one
By one ignite
Neither pale nor bright
The turkey-cock parades
Through radiant squalors, darkly auspicious as
The ace of spades
Himself his own cortége
And puffed with the pomp of death
Rehearsing over and over with strangled râle
His latest breath
The vast black body floats
Above the crossing knees
As a cloud ovеr thrashed branches, a calm ship
Over choppy sеas
Shuddering its fan and feathers
In fine soft clashes
With the cold sound that the wind makes, fondling
Paper-ashes
The pale-blue bony head
Set on its shepherd’s-crook
Like a saint’s death-mask, turns a vague, superb
And timeless look
Upon these clocking hens
And the cocks that one by one
Dawn after mortal dawn with vulgar joy
Acclaim the sun
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John Corigliano

John Corigliano

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"A Black November Turkey" appears on "Two Richard Wilbur Settings" in 1973.

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