Classical Chad Cannon
Flower Garden (Hiroshima)

From Chad Cannon's symphonic work, Dreams of a Sleeping World.

1. FLOWER GARDEN (HIROSHIMA)

From the sky in the form of snow
comes the great forgiveness.
Rain grown soft, the flakes descend
and rest; they nestle close, each one
arrived, welcomed and then at home.

If the sky lets go some day and I’m
requested for such volunteering
toward so clean a message, I’ll come.
The world goes on and while friends touch down
beside me, I too will come.

November, by William Stafford
from The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems. Copyright 1993, 2014
by Kim Stafford and the Estate of William Stafford. Used by permission of
The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of the Estate of William Stafford. All rights reserved worldwide.