"El Cielo..." genre: Contemporary
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	1st song of the cycle "Cinco Poemas de Jaime Manrique", for tenor and piano. Sung in Spanish
	Credits: Marik Hernandez, tenor; Kristin Pankonin, piano
	Lyrics I. The Sky over my Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding the essence of the night. As darkness fell —with its deepening onyx shadows and the golden brilliance of the stars— my mother put the garden, her house, the kitchen, in order. Now, as she sleeps, I walk in her garden immersed in the solitude of the moment. I have forgotten the names of many trees and flowers and there used to be more pines where orange tress flower now. Tonight I think of all the skies I have pondered and once loved. Tonight the shadows around the house are kind. The sky is a camera obscura projecting blurred images. In my mother’s house the twinkling stars pierce me with nostalgia, and each thread in the net that surrounds this world is a wound which will not heal.

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