Everything Falls Away

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SATB with divisi 4’00”
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"Everything Falls Away" is an aria from a musical setting of Santa Barbara poet Teddy Macker's, "Halo of Dust." The full poem switches between third and first person perspectives, as well as prose and verse to signal moments of introspective wisdom.

This short excerpt sets the poem's narrative climax where the protagonist, St. Francis of Assissi, shares with his community the mystical epiphany that reveals itself:

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SATB, divisi

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"Once in a great while
everything falls away,
and you are here,
standing on the ground,
no one but friends beside you.
You look around, all around, moved."

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