Eclipse | Mo Run Geal Og

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Kip wrote this poem after seeing a lunar eclipse from the top of a bedrock hill on Lopez Island. Stanley accompanies the poem with Mo Run Geal Og, a traditional Scottish harp tune he learned from Scottish harpist William Jackson. The title, Mo Run Geal Og, may be translated as My Fair Young Love.

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Eclipse

Older now
I stand on the cold hill
watching the earth’s dark curve
swallow up the moon’s light
and just when the moon is truly dark
it glows up bright
and coppery
like an agate
I found when I was a child
on the beach
and held it up to the sun
to see if I could see through it,
and I could—
in a blaze of umber light,
and I see that again
in the night sky,
that stone washed up by the sea
and I reach out, young again,
to take the moon in the palm of my hand
and wander around with it
through the universe.

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from Solstice Fire, released December 21, 2019
Eclipse | Mo Run Geal Og
(poem by Kip Greenthal, © 2019, music traditional Scottish)

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Stanley Greenthal: guitar | bouzouki | mandocello | tenor guitar | vocals

Christos Govetas: clarinet | oud | daouli | bendir | dobro | vocals

Kim Goldov: violin | bass | glockenspiel | piano | vocals

Kip Greenthal: bendir | bowed psaltery | vocals


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