DESCRIPTION:
The Orchid Room, music by Jody Redhage & words by Silvi Alcivar.
Performed by Rose & the Nightingale: Jody Redhage (cello, voice), Leala Cyr (voice), Sara Caswell (violin), Laila Biali (piano, voice).
Live at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, NY on June 6, 2012.
The Orchid Room is part of Rose & the Nightingale's song cycle "The Spirit of the Garden," celebrating the sublimity of botanical gardens.
www.roseandthenightingale.com
www.roseandthenightingale.bandcamp.com
Video by Simon C.F. Yu

the orchid room
lyrics by silvi alcivar
music by jody redhage

enter this room, she says,
giving permission
to breathe the petals of breath
orchids steal and give,
reminding us
life begins like this:
in the beauty of being
delicate and gasping,
crying out in streaks of red.

everything we are is
held in the gift of being alive.
everything we will ever be is
returning to soil and seed.

enter this room, she says,
the rarest orchids are blooming again.
there's a silence
in the words she says,
a giving permission,
an offering--
the beauty of being and
being reminded:
we are this orchid,
delicate and
gasping,
petals and petals,
returning.