Poetry Orchestra - The Humanist
Channel: David Dephy
Date: 2021-05-14

The Humanist by Poetry Orchestra: Wayne Miller and David Dephy. The track The Humanist ("We the Jury" by Wayne Miller, Milkweed Editions, 2021) has been recorded in New York and Colorado by Poetry Orchestra, on 5/11/21. 


THE HUMANIST


DAVID DEPHY

When he rose before the jury of his peers
he knew he had arrived at the endgame 
of his belief, mirror against mirror, 

WAYNE MILLER

and when they read to him his crimes—
his betrayal of the time’s
consensus—he saw he would be folded into the body 

of the human story. He would be 
judged and found guilty 
of elevating men to this very position of judgment. 

The loneliest person on earth
is a humanist condemned. When the pyre
was lit, it bloated the square 

DAVID DEPHY

with light—the light his body fed. 
Later the guards cleaned up in darkness. 
We have no record of what they said.

Wayne Miller

The track has been recorded in New York and Colorado by Wayne Miller and David Dephy on 5/11/21. All rights reserved © USA

Mixed by Saphileaum / Poetry Orchestra, New York

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Music and sound effects by Saphileaum Records
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Idea and concept by Poetry Orchestra New York 
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Video engineering by Andrea Meparishvili 
Video by Poetry Orchestra

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