The Last Romantic Verb: Bragi to Freya, on his deathbed

The final strains of KISSES FOR KARMA have barely faded when we hear the drums rise, part tribal, part beatnik, and at 16:55 into THE LAST ROMANTIC VERB we hear BRAGI TO FREYA, ON HIS DEATHBED.

"I am not blind to the beauty..."

Bragi was the Norse god of eloquence and poetry, married to Idun, the goddess of youth. In this piece, I envisioned the work, then drifted to see when he said it...and for some strange reason, the scene brings us him fading in lost love, being urged to continue by Freya, the Norse goddess of love and fertility and war. In the use of Bragi as an avatar for myself, I have to hand the role of Idun to an ex-lover who matched her for beauty and youth, but lacked the constancy of a love goddess or the fire of a battle goddess.

Thus, as Bragi despairs into nothingness, it is Freya who lures him, not to his bed, but from his bed, to fulfill his obligation as an immortal and a source of inspiration to lovers. There is anger and purpose to his words, but also passion and an acknolwedgement that he is stirred by his senses at the presence of the lovely goddess ( may have taken on almost a monastic cast to my life in recent months, but, believe me, the engine stir purrs beneath the shell).

It's a good, solid reading, built on layers of drums that hammer the point home, raising the fury in the heart until it pumps life back into limbs withering. Sometimes duty, obligation, can resurrect the most wounded of souls.

And then we seque to the massive arc of twelve poems, which runs almost twenty minutes of its own accord, called WORDSLINGER. I really like the funky bass on this one, and the guitar theme, giving it almost a Western feel.