Chorus In A Night! Comments

I like this poem a lot. The movement of the poem across the stanzas is in itself intriquing: You start with ghosts, a familiar trope in your poems and then list animals, many of them each species with a name, but ghosts are just ghosts - no dfferentiation. You begin the animal list low in the hierarchy and it goes even lower: rats, lizards, toads you could almost call them disgusting animals, no noble horse, or fierce tiger, or even stolid cow - these cre are not the ones we humans idealize. Between ghosts and animals I expected human beings. But instead - mythic creatures are in the middle. I like this stage setting of your nocturnal beastiary, and the second half has a kind of orphic voice (whose?) who summons these diverse night creatures and leads them in a song. I did not expect that volta but I like it: it suggests a unity among these creatures, probably not of purpose but of residence. Do you know the mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartoli? Great singer, alluring woman. I'm going to engage her to sing your refrain: She'll feature it in her next album! !