love walking in ny. walked from time square to lincoln center and back again. the trees were doing something beautiful, their fluorescent yellow leaves illuminating a dense smoky sky. met these beauties along 9th avenue, close to fordham. and then there was the metropolitan opera, mammoth, richly chandeliered, grand. filled with matthew au coin’s muscular music and eurydice’s tragic story. i wished for more tender, delicate music at times. i was most moved by her relationship with her father (rather than w orpheus). her father, her shade, her tree, the one who made a room for her out of string in the coldness of the underworld, the one who taught her how to speak again with endless love and patience after she forgot the language and memories of the living. i want to write a story about eurydice too.
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