In an Exotic Gainsboro palatte Box of Tunes

In an Exotic Gainsboro palatte Box of Tunes

(For Sharon Shannon, Chris Droney, & Fíonn Mac Giolla Cearra)

In an Exotic Gainsboro palatte Box of Tunes to backdrop of Burren glittering silver karst On Corcomroe and Bellharbour in mid tones dark tones light tones of shining Grey spectrum Ash Grey, jet Grey, Grey Green, Merengo, gold Grey, Puce, Davy’s Grey, warm Grey, Rose quartz Grey, tinfoil, Moon, battle ship Grey, Spanish Grey, Gainsboro . Like an exotic Gainsboro palatte box of Tunes of Chris Droney and Sharon Shannon Of reels jigs hornpipes & waltzes of Yang Droney “The Tinkers Daughter” & “Knights of Saint Patrick”, “The Kilfenorra Reel”, “The Parcel of Land”, “Apples in Winter”, “The Clogher Rose” . “The Maid in Green”, “The Bellharbour Reel”, “Reel of Mullinavat”, “The Whistling Postman”, “The Chattering Magpie” or Joe Cooley’s & “Sliabh na mBan hornpipe” Ending in a waltzing lullaby of “Bellharbour Hill” & “The Green Hills of Clare” .

And Yin Sharon Shannon sounds of squeeze box & button box after tuning A collapsible bellows of pleated cloth & vibrating reeds Forming pulsation waves of billowing swelling erection of language log & twitter trackbacks si-nu-sol-dal of air button back strap, button & bellows chin switches, casotto castagnari crane . Dry tuning a duet concertina of Chris and Sharon On fret key of a Jeffries a Lachenal or a McCann Sounding out billowing billowy billowing Wheezing wheezy wheezing asthma ebb and flow Squeezing squeezy squeezing .

Expand and contract like love making to a melancholy concertina string in harmony rhythm and tempo a textured genre to melody form . With Yin Sharon Shannon sounds Of the “Cappataggle Shuffle” & “The Galway Girl”, “Jewels of the Ocean” & “Billy in the Low Ground”, or the “Clare Reel” & “Tickle her Leg spellbound”, to the “Marguerite Suite” & “Pernod Waltz” . To reels jigs hornpipes or waltzes of “Say you Love me”, “Cat’s Miaow”, “Albatross” “Hogs and heifers Belties” probably from grazing Burren Lowlands, To “Seven Rejoices of Mary”, “The Burst Mattress” & Butterflies Like Wood White Marsh Fritillary, Brown Hairstreak & Pearl Bordered Fritillary . In an exotic Gainsboro Palette of Box Tunes to Backdrop of Burren glittering silver karst on Corcomroe and Bellharbour in mid tones dark tones light tones of shining Grey spectrum Ash Grey, jet Grey, Grey Green, Merengo, Gold Grey, Puce, Davy’s Grey, warm Grey, Rose quartz Grey, tinfoil, Moon, battle ship Grey, Spanish Grey, Gainsboro .