Zac's Song
By Debra Mues
Email: dlmues at hotmail dot com
(above email address formatted to reduce spam)
March 06, 2008
Alone in the Family House
Abandoned by the Elders
He plays on keys
of black and white
and births the song.
Words sprout from the Heart
ane merge into Melody
Sucking from the Atmosphere
Springing from the Compost
Making Beauty of Disorder and
Meaning from the Falling and the Rising
Living in a Song
My Son.
About the author:
This poem was written in November 2005 when Zac landed back with us after a rambling summer tour of Canada in a mobile recording studio he built in an old RV. He was following the Canadian folk festivals, and recording the jamming that occured after the performances ended. A good idea, and some great recordings but financially it didn't work out. So he came back home. Ironically, we moved out shortly thereafter, into a log cabin in the woods we had been working on for 7 years. So in this instance, the elders left the family house. Zac played us a beautiful song one evening, when we stopped by. He had just finished composing it—hot off the piano—a new born. It was one of those moments. I wish Zac had made a submission to your talent show. I wanted him to. This poem is for the parents that tried to create environments for their 20-year-old something children to flourish in.
Now Available:
A Christmas Blizzard
GK's New Holiday Story
A comic novella about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown.
Audio edition also available»
The Prairie Home cruise has become legendary on two of the Seven Seas and now is setting sail on a third, a weeklong spring break cruise of the western Caribbean along the Mexican coast, and it leaves March 14 from Tampa.
Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.
Read the first chapter»Signed Copies Available»
The latest collection of Lake Wobegon short stories gathered from live broadcasts include Confirmation Sunday, the church directory photos, Pastor Ingqvist's leather bound sermons along with song lyrics and the "95 Theses," among others. Companion audio also available.
Order now!»