
Critical Moments
Spontaneous devices sculpted deep into the night
The coauthor of self-arising designs from ceaseless threads of ancient intensities
Becomes the scribe for narratives of a mystery that patiently awaits its turn
As the actor who rests in the mother of evening's emptiness
Sensing the emergent whispers of a spring
The poet lays immersed in the stream becoming river
Its design unfolding along the waterway's harmonious tracings
The elegist of the night's silent muse
Becomes the artisan of meditations within an invisible beauty
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Forrest Smithson is an American composer from Northern California,
most known for his acclaimed catalogue of Ambient Electronic compositions
and Contemporary Classical works