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A Woman Walked Down A Pier

from In The Dreemplace by Roger Doyle

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Music, text and studio production © Roger Doyle PRS 2024. Voiced by Mandy.

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A woman walked down a pier pushing a buggy in which her young son sat. An orange half-moon stuck to the blue of the summer sky. On either side stretched a beach and a forest so close that the saffron sand mixed with the roots of the evergreens and undergrowth.
A light wind blew in the ears of the woman and rustled the leaves of the forest and dried the wings of a perched cuckoo and tossed the spiral crown of the child’s head. His curious eyes caught sight of endless things of interest, like, the red balloon sinking into the evening sea, the still forest, the telescope at the end of the pier which he thought was a gun. And leaning over, safely strapped, the gaps in the moving pierboards revealing the thrashing tide even further below.
Looking back over his shoulder he raised an arm and aimed two fingers at the forest, shooting…
-Pshoo!
A butterfly landed on his head. A bird fell from a tree.
What the mother saw in the ensuing silence was an angel of death spreading its wings across her son’s face.

They reached the shop at the end of the pier. It was closed. Seeing only herself in the window she moved closer and looked across the shelves of holiday souvenirs. One of them broke her heart.

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from In The Dreemplace, released March 27, 2024

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Roger Doyle – composer, keyboardist and producer of own music, in concert and in the studio. Likes to work on large projects and to collaborate with others. Works with a multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.

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